Towards integrated health care: a model for assault victims

Shepherd, Jonathan Paul ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6466-2298 and Bisson, Jonathan Ian ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5170-1243 2004. Towards integrated health care: a model for assault victims. British Journal of Psychiatry 184 (1) , pp. 3-4. 10.1192/03-297

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Abstract

The 1998 Crime and Disorder Act places a statutory responsibility on the National Health Service (NHS) to work in partnership with the police and local authorities to audit and tackle crime in their areas. One of the principal reasons for this partnership approach is that substantial numbers of offences that result in NHS treatment of physical and psychological injuries are not reported to the police. Nowhere is the ‘dark figure’ of unrecorded crime more obvious than in accident and emergency departments. In Bristol, only 23% of people injured in assaults who attended a local accident and emergency department appeared in police lists of woundings (Shepherd et al, 1989). Furthermore, because services for victims of crime have been organised in and around criminal justice agencies, services for those treated in the NHS are lacking.

Item Type:	Article
Date Type:	Publication
Status:	Published
Schools:	Medicine MRC Centre for Neuropsychiatric Genetics and Genomics (CNGG)
Subjects:	R Medicine > R Medicine (General)
Publisher:	Royal College of Psychiatrists
ISSN:	0007-1250
Last Modified:	24 Oct 2022 11:09
URI:	https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/47139

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