Violence against NHS A&E staff is rising, driven at least in part by frustrations with waits for treatment, but also perhaps by a breakdown in social norms of respect for health workers?

And of course, this will no be helping the NHS retain staff nor recruit new people toward in A&E.

Call me an alarmist, but this seems to be just the latest example of a creeping barbarism & decline in civility in come parts of our civil society.

#politics #health #civility

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2025/aug/12/ae-nurses-attacks-rise