Violence Report 2006 final.pdf - BMA
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Health Policy & Economic Research Unit<br />
Table 5 Extent of violence as a problem in workplace by hospital specialty (%)<br />
Surgery<br />
General medicine (& medical oncology)<br />
Psychiatry<br />
Obstetrics & gynaecology<br />
Paediatrics<br />
Anaesthetics<br />
Radiology (& clinical oncology)<br />
Pathology<br />
Geriatrics<br />
A&E<br />
Very much<br />
a problem<br />
Somewhat of<br />
a problem<br />
Not really<br />
a problem<br />
Doctors were also asked whether they thought that violence from patients has increased over the past<br />
year in their workplace.<br />
More than a quarter of doctors reported an increase in violence in the past year and 56% stated that<br />
it had not changed. Only two doctors (0.2%) reported a decrease.<br />
Table 6 shows that GPs were more likely to report increased violence in the workplace or indeed no<br />
change in the past year, compared with hospital doctors. Among hospital doctors, those working in<br />
A&E, anaesthetics and psychiatry specialties were more likely to report increased violence in the<br />
workplace (Table 7).<br />
Table 6 Whether violence has increased in workplace by type of doctor (%)<br />
Increased<br />
Decreased<br />
No change<br />
Not applicable<br />
Total<br />
11.5<br />
4.8<br />
34.0<br />
6.9<br />
4.5<br />
15.4<br />
7.4<br />
0.0<br />
0.0<br />
51.4<br />
46.2<br />
24.8<br />
16.0<br />
37.9<br />
38.6<br />
21.2<br />
40.7<br />
18.2<br />
55.6<br />
2.9<br />
32.1<br />
48.6<br />
48.0<br />
41.4<br />
40.9<br />
53.8<br />
29.6<br />
9.1<br />
33.3<br />
45.7<br />
Not a problem<br />
at all<br />
10.3<br />
21.9<br />
2.0<br />
13.8<br />
15.9<br />
9.6<br />
22.2<br />
72.7<br />
11.1<br />
0.0<br />
General Practitioner Hospital Doctor Total<br />
30.0<br />
0.5<br />
62.8<br />
6.7<br />
100.0<br />
27.7<br />
0.0<br />
51.2<br />
21.1<br />
100.0<br />
28.7<br />
0.2<br />
56.2<br />
14.9<br />
100.0<br />
<strong>Violence</strong> in the workplace – The experience of doctors in Northern Ireland 7