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    „Bespuckt, geschubst, geschlagen“: Mediziner berichten von steigender Gewalt in Krankenhäusern


    „Bespuckt, geschubst, geschlagen“: Mediziner berichten von steigender Gewalt in Krankenhäusern

    https://www.theguardian.com/society/2026/jan/10/nhs-staff-violence-in-hospitals

    Von acrimoniousone

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    1. Dystopian_Everyday on

      It’s inaction from the courts that are the blame more than the NHS and police. Getting a suspended sentence for assaulting an emergency worker whilst already on a suspended sentence for assaulting an emergency worker is common.

      If you can’t ever go to prison for the offence then you will just keep seeing it increase and increase.

      For the police why would they bother when it doesn’t lead to an outcome and for the NHS why would they bother when it doesn’t lead to an outcome.

      You have to understand why there’s inaction before blaming them.

    2. Cultural_Joke2025 on

      It’s also shocking how some A&E have no security at all. 

      The one I attended recently didn’t have a single security guard; yet you’re most likely to see one in the Job Centre!

    3. TheCharalampos on

      I was in the hospital recently. Exhausted, in massive amounts of pain and my mental health spiraling I still took great care to be polite and thankful to the people working to literally help me.

      Like, obviously.

    4. Danuk9455 on

      Went to A&E for the first time in a very long time. It’s full of undesirable who get frustrated with waiting their turn. I think this is a reflection of current society and too many selfish people. The queue in Britain was held in high regard for a reason.

    5. MDFHASDIED on

      Should lose your right to treatment if you’re like that to the ones trying to help you.

    6. According-Annual-586 on

      I’ve luckily rarely needed A&E, but when I first started experiencing full blown seizures (later diagnosed as epilepsy in my early 30s), my family would call 999 when it was happening as it was all new and scary.

      One time, my local hospital had long queues / wait times for ambulances in A&E, so I had to be taken to another hospital closer to the city centre. The difference in the A&E was wild. This one had blokes getting fully angry that they’d had to wait a while for their daughter to be seen( the A&E reception was packed out), punching glass / walls / doors, fully raging, and eventually having to be wrestled to the floor by security.

      I think the hospital in question is closed down and has merged with another one.

      I can imagine A&E staff have some crazy experiences on a daily basis, but they always done a great job on my instances – it’s a shame they’ve gotta deal with so much rubbish

    7. Flimsy_Reality1472 on

      You know what’s shocking human beings treated like cattle left in corridors in pain suffering and alone. Some left to die… and the being gaslighted or mistreated by bad doctors and nurses. There’s more to this people we all know and hear the horror story’s so let’s not think this is just a one way street ‼️

    8. Left_East7588 on

      I wonder how many of those people who have behaved badly towards others in those environments were also standing outside on a Thursday evening bashing pans together, putting rainbows in their windows and pretending to give a damn.

    9. Ikkarus7 on

      It blows my mind that we live in a society whereby people are not only rude but physically assault the people who are trying to help them.

      It’s not the ground forces fault for the wait they’re trying their best with the resources they have at their disposal.

    11. Jensen1994 on

      We need nightclub bouncers in A&E now I’m afraid. At least any troublesome patients won’t be far from the treatment they’ll need ….

    12. Normal-Zebra-9614 on

      I’ve seen a patient abuse NHS staff whilst under arrest with two police present and they did nothing.

    13. Legal-One-7274 on

      I think if you are drunk and end up in a&e then you should get charged for your treatment people complain about the NHS but a large percentage of emergency admissions are alcohol related

    14. yomamastears on

      My sister is a doctor. She got kicked in the stomach while heavily pregnant. Thank goodness she was in the right place, in hospital, to get her Rho gam shot straight after. She then had to go back and continue to help this patient. Nuts.

    15. Toothfairy29 on

      Zero tolerance should mean zero tolerance imo. Any violence, that’s your NHS entitlement suspended. No care for you, bye bye.

    16. FoxCredibilityInc on

      > A Guardian call-out to NHS staff in England to share their experiences of violence in hospitals has revealed that doctors, nurses, paramedics and managers are being overwhelmed by a torrent of physical assaults and sexual abuse by patients.

      While I don’t doubt there is violence towards medical staff and don’t wish to belittle anyone’s experience, this sounds more like an article intended to encourage outrage than a genuine attempt to determine the truth of things.

      Self-report surveys are not reliable indicators.

    17. KeefsCornerShop on

      If you act violently to someone who is giving you care in an NHS hospital you should get blacklisted. You want to be looked after? Good luck pal.

    18. Revolutionary-Key533 on

      I always thought the „solution“ was to have a couple of „bobbies“ stationed at large hospitals. However had to go to one of the large northern hospitals and was shocked by the number of police waiting with their „clients“ there. I suppose body cameras may „help“ gather evidence for what should be an aggravating offence of assault.

      Shocked that some violent assaults like the MP kicking his constituent 7 times on the ground was „common „assault rather than ABH or GBH!!

    19. DecompressionIllness on

      And this is why I left my nursing degree. It’s not worth it.

      I’ve been on the other side as a patient, too. I rolled up to A&E in the early hours having not been able to eat or drink for 24+ hours previously due to chemo side effects. Because of the nature of what chemo does to the body, the nurses in triage wanted me very close to them and the only way they could achieve that was to sit me in a chair directly in front of the triage door on the other side of the corridor. But because the chair they got me was “comfy”, I got a mouthful of verbal abuse from two other patients who’d been in A&E for 12+ hours that had been left to sit on hard plastic chairs.

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