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Violence, disorder and incivility in British hospitals



Download Acrobat Reader (free) Page 1 of 14 84,273 incidents of violence or abusive behaviour by patients within the NHS were reported during the year 2000/2001. Many more remained unreported. To these must be added even more incidents of disorder and incivility... RESEARCH REPORT 36 VIOLENCE, DISORDER AND INCIVILITY IN BRITISH HOSPITALS THE CASE FOR ZERO TOLERANCE THEODORE DALRYMPLE THE SOCIAL AFFAIRS UNIT © The Social Affairs Unit 2002 All Rights Reserved British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data A catalogue record of this book is available from the British Library ISBN 0 907631 97 5 ISSN 0264 5262 36 The reports in this series represent the views of their individual authors, not the views ofthe Social Affairs Unit,itsTrustees, or Director. Printed and bound in Great Britain by St Edmundsbury Press Ltd Online conversion by the Big Blog Company Start • Previous \|1 \|2 \|3 \|4 \|5 \|6 • Next • End

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Violence, disorder and incivility in British hospitals

RESEARCH REPORT 36