A new report details a sharp rise in physical and non-physical assaults on healthcare workers, highlighting severe personal and professional consequences, systemic failures in response, and urgent calls for improved safety and mental health support.
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An amazing and sad insight this morning, I'm afraid to tell you, into the state of this country. We have new data on the assaults against health. Health workers, 7,584 of them last year. If you glass half full, that's actually down a bit from 7,600, so 7,600 to 7,500. ED, of course, is your hot zone, 1,095, which is up 74%. Paul Gould is the chief executive of the New Zealand Nurses Association. He's with us. Paul, morning to you. I'm well, thank you. I've got adjacent experience with this relatively recently, and the behaviour just generally in hospitals these days, I mean, you should send everybody to a hospital to have a look at what's going on because it's disgusting. Would you agree?
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