§ Sandra GidleyTo ask the Secretary of State for Health (1) if he will list, by regional ambulance service, the number of days off sick taken by ambulance staff following physical assaults by members of the public while on duty in(a) Q4 2000–01, (b) Q1 2001–02, (c) Q2 2001–02, (d) Q3 2001–02 and in (e) 2000–01, (f) 1999–2000, and (g) 1998–99; [35864]
Violent incidents in ambulance trusts—reported 1998–99 Region Trust name Number of violent incidents standardised to a year Rate of incidents per 1,000 staff (WTE) Northern and Yorkshire Cleveland Ambulance NHS Trust 15 54 Northern and Yorkshire Cumbria Ambulance Service NHS Trust 1— 1— Northern and Yorkshire Durham County Ambulance Service NHS Trust 32 100 Northern and Yorkshire Humberside Ambulance Service NHS Trust 23 66 Northern and Yorkshire North Yorkshire Ambulance Service NHS Trust 7 21 Northern and Yorkshire Northumbria Ambulance Service NHS Trust 52 70 Northern and Yorkshire West Yorkshire Metropolitan Ambulance Services NHS Trust 28 27 Trent Derbyshire Ambulance Service NHS Trust 25 57 Trent Leicestershire Ambulance and Paramedic Services NHS Trust 34 79 Trent Lincolnshire Ambulance NHS Trust 56 101 Trent Nottinghamshire Ambulance Service NHS Trust 120 221 Trent South Yorkshire Metropolitan Ambulance Service NHS Trust 57 99 Eastern Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire Ambulance and Paramedic NHS Trust 22 38 Eastern East Anglian Ambulance NHS Trust 1— 1— Eastern Essex Ambulance Service NHS Trust 12 16 London London Ambulance Service 464 153 South East Hampshire Ambulance Service NHS Trust 26 60 South East Kent Ambulance NHS Trust 96 152 South East Oxfordshire Ambulance NHS Trust 0 0 South East Royal Berkshire Ambulance NHS Trust 36 101 South East Surrey Ambulance Service NHS Trust 12 24 South East Sussex Ambulance Services NHS Trust 105 144 South East Two Shires Ambulance NHS Trust 1— 1— South West Avon Ambulance Service NHS Trust 30 85 South West Dorset Ambulance NHS Trust 93 290 South West Gloucestershire Ambulance Service NHS Trust 2— 2— South West West Country Ambulance Services NHS Trust 43 47 South West Wiltshire Ambulance Service NHS Trust 1— 1— West Midlands Hereford and Worcester Ambulance Service NHS Trust 2— 2— West Midlands Staffordshire Ambulance Service NHS Trust 0 0 West Midlands Warwickshire Ambulance Service NHS Trust 2— 2— West Midlands West Midlands Ambulance Services NHS Trust 63 60 North West Greater Manchester Ambulance Service NHS Trust 71 71 North West Lancashire Ambulance Service NHS Trust 56 88 North West Mersey Regional Ambulance Service NHS Trust 56 58 1 Indicates that there were less than five violent incidents, when standardised to a year. 2 Indicates that the trust either submitted no data or the data was not comparable with other trusts. Notes:
- 1. Data reported covered different time periods and have been standardised to an annual equivalent to allow comparison.
- 2. The figures represent all violent incidents to any staff in each ambulance trust. No figures are available for only physical assaults or for only ambulance staff on duty.
- 3. At the time of this collection national definitions had not yet been published. Definitions and reporting thresholds varied between trusts.
Source:
Department of Health's 1998–99 Survey of Sickness Absence, Accidents and Violence in NHS trusts
1424W(2) if he will list, by regional ambulance service, the number of physical assaults by members of the public against ambulance staff while on duty in (a) Q4 2000–01, (b) Q1 2001–02, (c) Q2 2001–02, (d) Q3 2001–02 and in (e) 2000–01, (f) 1999–2000, and (g) 1998–99. [35863]
§ Ms BlearsThe Department conducted a survey of sickness absence, accidents and violence in national health service trusts in England in 1998–99. The survey found that there were approximately 65,000 violent incidents against NHS trust staff recorded each year. Figures for each individual NHS ambulance trust are shown in the table. A further survey of recorded violent incidents in 2000–01 has been conducted, and the figures are currently being analysed by the Department.
Information on levels of sickness absence resulting from violence at work is not collected centrally, but may be held at a local level by individual national health service employers. The average sickness absence rate for staff directly employed by NHS ambulance trusts in 1999 was 6.6 per cent.