Assaults on staff and patients in in-house mental health facilities
Dear Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust,
Please could you provide me with details of the following incidents that occurred in in-patient mental health facilities managed by your trust on an annual basis, broken down by year from 2011 to 2018:
1. Total number of reported patient on staff assaults in in-patient mental health facilities managed by your Trust each year. Preferably broken down by type of assault e.g. physical/verbal etc
2. Total number of reported patient on patient assaults in in-patient mental health facilities managed by your Trust each year. Preferably broken down by type of assault e.g. physical/verbal etc
3. Number of reported arson attempts / deliberately started fires in in-patient mental health facilities managed by your Trust each year
4. Number of reported assaults that included a weapon (knife, razor blade, needle etc) in in-patient mental health facilities managed by your Trust each year
5. Total amount paid in compensation by the Trust as a result of reported assaults by patients at in-patient mental health facilities managed by your trust each year.
Yours faithfully,
Mike Overthrow
Dear Mike Overthrow
Thank you for your email requesting information regarding assaults on staff and patients.
We are treating your correspondence as a request for information under the Freedom of Information Act 2000.
You should expect to receive a further reply from us within 20 working days from the day when your request was originally received by this Department.
Kind regards
Carol Embriaco on behalf of
Mark M Underwood
Head of Information Governance
Freedom of Information Team
Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust
The White Building, Littlemore MHC, 33 Sandford Road, Oxford OX4 4XN
Please find the Trust response attached above.
regards. Mark M. Underwood.
Mark M. Underwood
Head of Information Governance
IM&T Department, Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust
The White Building, Littlemore MHC, 33 Sandford Road, Oxford, OX4 4XN
direct dial: 01865 902554
email: [Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust request email]
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