NHS Trusts across Lancashire have paid out a combined total more than £600,000 in staff assault claims in the last five years. An investigation by LegalExpert.co.
uk found that a total of 103 claims and incidents of NHS staff assaults were logged across four trusts in the district with 39 claims being settled with damages since 2019. Advertisement Advertisement Sign up to our daily newsletter Did you know with an ad-lite subscription to Lancaster Guardian, you get 70% fewer ads while viewing the news that matters to you. Physical assaults on NHS staff are defined as: “The intentional application of force to the person of another without lawful justification, resulting in physical injury or personal discomfort.
” Data obtained via Freedom of Information requests to NHS Resolution (the legal body of the NHS) reveals that the biggest damages payouts in the county came from Lancashire and South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust, which is actually the third worst trust in the UK for staff assaults. Lancashire and South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust provides health and wellbeing services for the whole of Lancashire and South Cumbria with a population of around 1.8 million people.
The Trust specialises in secure, perinatal, inpatient and community mental health and learning disability services, including services for children and young people. How many incidents of staff asault were there across Lancashire hospital trusts? In total, Lancashire and South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust pai.
