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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
Health
Ella Pickover and Jacob Phillips

SHOCKING: Nurses facing abhorrent violence levels while in a e - What They Never Told You

A shocking report has uncovered the scale of the abuse - (Peter Byrne/PA)

London’s nurses are facing “abhorrent” levels of violence in A&E departments, including being punched, spat at and even having a gun pointed at one of them, a shocking report has uncovered.

Nurses have explained they have been knocked unconscious, and in one case even threatened with an acid attack, according to the Royal College of Nursing (RCN).

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