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Dr Lade Smith CBE, President of the 免费黑料网, said:
“We welcome measures to improve reporting and prevention of violence and aggression against NHS Staff. Healthcare professionals cannot be expected to come to work and do the best for their patients in an environment where they experience threats, violence and abusive behaviour.
“More than 1 in 10 mental health staff have personally experienced physical violence at work from members of the public in the last 12 months. In addition to the physical harm this can cause, there are longer term psychological harms which can affect their ability to function at work as well as impacting retention.
“RCPsych are ready to support the UK government to support NHS staff. In addition to accessing physical health support, the Government must ensure NHS staff are able to access comprehensive mental health and wellbeing support. At a national level, we are calling for recurrent funding of ?40m that is ring-fenced to meet the mental health needs of NHS staff across England. This would be enough to maintain staff mental health and wellbeing hubs.
“As well as violence and aggression, staff are regularly impacted by experiences of racism and discrimination. We are calling on healthcare provider organisations to tackle this by taking a zero-tolerance approach to racist behaviour.
“As part of our Act Against Racism campaign we've launched new guidance and resources to support mental health employers. We are calling on organisations to sign up to adopt the 15 actions to take vital steps towards addressing this huge problem.”
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