Assaults on staff and patients in in-house mental health facilities
Dear Kent and Medway NHS and Social Care Partnership 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
2. Total number of reported patient on patient assaults in in-patient mental health facilities managed by your Trust each year
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 Sirs
Request for Information
Thank you for your request to access information in accordance with the
Freedom of Information Act 2000, dated 28/03/2018.
This was received by the Trust on 28 March 2018 and, in accordance with
the Act, the Trust has 20 working days in which to respond, ending on the
27/04/2018. An initial investigation is currently taking place into
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Head of Information Governance
Kent and Medway NHS and Social Care Partnership Trust
Information Governance Department
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Sittingbourne
Kent, ME10 3DW
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Dear Sirs
Request for Information
I write further to your request FOI ID 14086 under the Freedom of
Information Act 2000 regarding:-
Assaults on staff and patients in acute settings
Following an investigation and search of our records I can confirm the
following Kent and Medway NHS and Social Care Partnership Trust (KMPT)
information:-
1. Total number of reported patient on staff assaults in in-patient
mental health facilities managed by your Trust each year
+------------------------------------------------------------------------+
|Year |2011 |2012 |2013 |2014 |2015 |2016 |2017 |2018 |
|--------+-------+-------+-------+-------+-------+-------+-------+-------|
|Total |1831 |1832 |2548 |2281 |741 |1044 |1069 |141 |
+------------------------------------------------------------------------+
2. Total number of reported patient on patient assaults in in-patient
mental health facilities managed by your Trust each year
+------------------------------------------------------------------------+
|Year |2011 |2012 |2013 |2014 |2015 |2016 |2017 |2018 |
|--------+-------+-------+-------+-------+-------+-------+-------+-------|
|Total |979 |951 |902 |676 |154 |518 |638 |103 |
+------------------------------------------------------------------------+
3. Number of reported arson attempts / deliberately started fires in
in-patient mental health facilities managed by your Trust each year
+------------------------------------------------------------------------+
|Year |2011 |2012 |2013 |2014 |2015 |2016 |2017 |2018 |
|--------+-------+-------+-------+-------+-------+-------+-------+-------|
|Total |1 |1 |0 |0 |8 |6 |1 |2 |
+------------------------------------------------------------------------+
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
+------------------------------------------------------------------------+
|Year |2011 |2012 |2013 |2014 |2015 |2016 |2017 |2018 |
|--------+-------+-------+-------+-------+-------+-----------------------|
|Total |4 |0 |3 |1 |1 | Please see below |
+------------------------------------------------------------------------+
With regards to the years 2016 – 2018 the information is not routinely
collected outside normal record keeping of an incident investigation. The
requested information is not held centrally and is contained within the
individual investigation records and archive systems which can not be
extracted as a stand alone piece of data. In order to extract the
requested information and collate the results would require a manual
exercise to identify and review investigation records and would exceed the
appropriate time limits, as per the Freedom of Information Act 2000
section 12(1) which does not oblige a public authority to comply with a
request for information if the authority estimates that the cost of
complying with the request would exceed the appropriate limit.
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.
Please be advised that the figures relating to this question have been
based on the date of incident, rather than the date of payment. In most
cases, the payments are not made within the same year as the incident
occurred therefore to produce figures based on the year of payment would
not accurately reflect the amounts paid in respects of incidents on a year
by year basis.
For the years showing as nil, it is possible that there are pending
incidents where the payments have not yet been agreed and may result in
payments in the future.
+------------------------------------------------------------------------+
|Year |2011 |2012 |2013 |2014 |2015 |2016 |2017 |2018 |
|------+-----------+-----------+----------+------+-----+-----+-----+-----|
|Total |£95,277.10 |£34,800.00 |£6,500.00 |£0.00 |£0.00|£0.00|£0.00|£0.00|
+------------------------------------------------------------------------+
I confirm that the information above completes your request under the
Freedom of Information Act 2000. I am also pleased to confirm that no
charge will be made for this request.
If you have any queries about this response please contact me. Please
remember to quote the reference number above in any future communication
Yours Sincerely
Leanne McDougall PC.dp PC.foi CertHE-Law
Head of Information Governance
Kent and Medway NHS and Social Care Partnership Trust
Information Governance Department
St Michaels House
St Michaels Road
Sittingbourne
Kent, ME10 3DW
01795 514507
07468 763793
[1][email address]
[2][email address]
[3]www.kmpt.nhs.uk
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are not the intended recipient please accept our apologies. Please do not
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