How to avoid pain and injury when moving and handling patients
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How to avoid pain and injury when moving and handling patients

Erin Dean Health journalist

With musculoskeletal injury rates high, safe movement and handling is essential to protect the health of nurses and improve patient safety

Over the span of a decade the NHS in England has out paid more than £57million to end claims relating to injuries to staff and patients as a result of moving and handling.

Learning Disability Practice. 27, 6, 6-8. doi: 10.7748/ldp.27.6.6.s2

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