... Across Australia and the world, there has been an explosion of violence reported against healthcare workers during the pandemic fuelled by elevated drug and alcohol use and an escalating number of patients and their carers, frustrated by record-long waiting times in hospital emergency departments, who are lashing out. ...
The program, ‘Predict, Prevent, Priority: Safety’ was first introduced to emergency departments in 2019, sparking a notable drop in code grey alerts – a hospital response to violent, aggressive, abusive or threatening behaviour from patients or visitors. ...
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