🏥New evidence reveals hospitals in London have seen a horrendous rise in attacks on frontline staff during the pandemic.
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🧑⚕️Director of NHS London’s Covid response, Martin Machray, said the wellbeing impact was "enormous"
🗨️"People come to work to look after those who need help most. Being abused, hit, physically attacked is completely unacceptable. You can imagine what it does to people’s lives."
🗨️"People come to work to look after those who need help most. Being abused, hit, physically attacked is completely unacceptable. You can imagine what it does to people’s lives."
📊New figures show that police have been called 4,000 times to London’s hospitals over the past two years.
🚨In just 10 months of 2021, the Met Police was called over 2,000 times to just five hospitals in London.
🚔This led to 56 arrests across the sites in 2021, with almost half of these at St Thomas’ Hospital.
🚔This led to 56 arrests across the sites in 2021, with almost half of these at St Thomas’ Hospital.
🚑There were another 650 physical assaults on London ambulance staff last year, the highest in five years.
😷These shocking figures come as a London health chief warns that Covid crisis is “not over yet” as case rates remain “phenomenally high”.
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