A FORMER health worker has won £825,000 damages from a health trust after being seriously injured in attacks by patients.
Lisa Carter, 38, was repeatedly punched, stamped on and bitten in a series of vicious assaults while working as a community carer for people with severe learning disabilities.
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A HEALTH worker is attacked everyday on average in East Lancashire, shock new figures reveal.
Some 391 health workers reported being assaulted over the past 12 months.
The number of attacks has increased by as much as 54 per cent year-on-year in some health trusts.
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A man banned from approaching health workers in Cumbria has appeared in court accused of talking to a receptionist at Carlisle’s Carleton Clinic.
Robert Oldfield, 35, was banned by an antisocial behaviour order from approaching anyone working for the Cumbria Partnership NHS Trust.
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A ban on cut-price beer and wine and a higher drinking age may be needed to curb alcohol-related public disorder, MPs will say today.
In a devastating analysis of 'Binge Britain', they conclude that police forces are being overwhelmed by booze-fuelled mayhem.
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Pub happy hours should be banned and supermarkets stopped from selling alcohol at a loss, in order to combat drink-fuelled disorder, MPs have said.
The Home Affairs select committee said reckless drinking was placing a heavy burden on police resources.
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MORE than 2,400 NHS staff were assaulted in Greater Manchester last year, new figures show.
They were among 55,993 who suffered attacks nationally in 2007/08 - a rise of 284 on the previous year's statistics.
More than half of assaults happened in the region's mental health trusts, but 119 took place in primary care trusts.
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UNIONS in Merseyside are calling for action after figures for violent attacks on NHS staff have been released.
More than one in seven staff working for the mental health trust the 5 Boroughs Partnership have been assaulted in the past year and more than one in 10 at Merseycare NHS Trust.
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Violent attacks on doctors and nurses fuelled by all-night drinking have reached record levels.
Official figures show that nearly 56,000 NHS staff were assaulted last year, but fewer than one in 50 attacks led to a prosecution.
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Ambulance services across the UK hold records of more than 8,500 households who have a history of violence against paramedics, the BBC has learned.
Staff called to emergencies at these addresses are advised to wait for police before entering the premises.
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What does TAG stand for?
Transforming A Generation. The initiative was set up as a response to growing street violence and aims to help 18- to 24-year-olds not in employment, education or training (Neet) to swap street life for a greater sense of self-worth by gaining career prospects and benefiting their communities by becoming local wellbeing champions.
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Police are installing knife detectors in hospital entrances in an attempt to prevent violence spilling on to Accident and Emergency departments.
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THIS is the horrifying moment a masked thug pointed a gun at an old lady in a wheelchair in a hospital’s busy A&E department.
Patients and staff cowered in terror as drunken Scott Charlton waved the air rifle in the air.
Charlton, 32, claimed he was depressed and wanted help when he stormed into Rochdale Infirmary.
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A SENIOR nurse who claims she suffered racial discrimination at the hands of hospital bosses will have to wait until at least December to find out if she has won her case.
Mixed race Sarina Saiger claims she was subjected to a campaign of victimisation and harassment while working for the North Cumbria University Hospitals NHS Trust.
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Pensioners are less protected against abuse than pets, campaigners have warned as they urge the Government to introduce new laws to protect vulnerable older people.
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A HOSPITAL chief accused of assaulting a senior nurse and telling her she did not fit in because of her race has issued an outright denial.
North Cumbria’s former director of nursing, Bruce Skilbeck, took to the witness stand at a tribunal into claims by former assistant Sarina Saiger that he told her she was the “wrong colour and culture” for Cumbria. She also alleges he physically assaulted her.
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A SCHEME to protect children and adults at the greatest risk of domestic abuse has had a major impact on reducing repeat incidents.
The county-wide Multi-Agency Risk Assessment Conferencing (MARAC) brings together the agencies involved in protecting and supporting the highestrisk victims to share information, give updates on action and plan further work.
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The woman in charge of staffing at north Cumbria’s main hospitals has denied accusations that she launched a racially-motivated campaign of harassment against a senior nurse.
Shirley Chipperfield, human resources director at the North Cumbria University Hospitals NHS Trust, took to the witness stand at a high-profile tribunal in Newcastle yesterday.
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Late-night pub opening has stretched frontline police 'to the absolute limits' as they struggle to contain increasing violence, senior officers will warn Parliament today.
Police Federation leaders will tell MPs that licensing reforms have led to more police resources being used to deal with drink-fuelled disorder while failing to curb binge drinking.
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accused of assaulting a senior nurse and telling her she did not fit in because of her race has issued an outright denial.
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THE former boss of north Cumbria’s hospitals has defended her decision not to suspend a top director despite claims that he had assaulted a senior nurse.
Marie Burnham, who ran the West Cumberland Hospital and Cumberland Infirmary until earlier this year, insists she took the allegations seriously.
Former assistant director of nursing Sarina Saiger claims she was assaulted by her boss, Bruce Skilbeck.
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