Violence towards hospital staff - especially nurses - has led to some trusts employing their own police officers. Lawrence Cohen reports
BRITAIN’S RAILWAYS, parks and harbours all have their own police service - so why not the NHS? This is a view held by a growing number of trust security man-‘ agers who want to see police, or at least security officers with some police powers, on patrol in Britain’s hospitals.
Nursing Standard. 16, 40, 18-18. doi: 10.7748/ns.16.40.18.s33
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