Protecting Lone Working NHS Staff
Why choose Peoplesafe?
Peoplesafe partners with over 100 NHS trusts and have been protecting healthcare workers for over 20 years. This in-depth understanding of the safety risks in this industry means we can provide the best-in-class service to meet the varied needs of NHS staff.
The NHS People Plan, launched in July 2020, made a promise for leaders to prevent and control violence so that “staff should never be fearful or apprehensive about coming to work”.
Lone working NHS staff and those working alone in other parts of healthcare are around 9% more likely to sustain an injury from a physical assault compared to non-lone workers. Peoplesafe is the largest employee protection technology provider in the world with a dedicated service to protecting people and nothing else. The simple introduction of NHS personal alarms to protect your colleagues, is just a click away.
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Leading safety technology
- 6-day battery life
- Trusted to protect over 36,000 NHS staff.
- Highest levels of accreditation (including BS 8484:2022, EN 50518:2019 and BS 9518: 2021).
- A suite of solutions to mitigate multiple different risks.
- Guaranteed police response.
- DTAC compliant.
- Continuous training offered via a wide range of options which can be embedded into your LMS.
- Best-in-class online portal that allows staff to self-manage.
NHS trusts who already protect their staff with Peoplesafe
All types of risk covered
Low Risks
- Working in remote areas in clinical settings away from colleagues
- Staff travelling between clinical settings
- Lone working admin staff
- Taking public transport or walking home after long shifts
Mid-Level Risks
- Abuse, violence and aggression from patients, their relatives, or the public
- Transporting patients
- Accompanying service users to appointments
- Facilities management
- Slips, trips, falls and health incidents
High Risks
- Home visits
- Escorting service users on section 17 leave
- Risk of attack or robbery
- Terror threats
Lone Working in the NHS
There are an increasing number of NHS lone workers, including those who work alone to complete high-risk tasks for parts or all of their day. They may be required to see patients in their home; patrol clinical environments; respond to calls out-of-hours; transport patients for appointments and facilitate and manage waiting rooms.
This exposes them to a higher level of risk when compared to the risk presented to those working in groups. Simply implementing NHS personal alarms into your lone working policy for NHS staff, could greatly reduce this.
Read our guide outlining responsibilities that employers and employees in the NHS have in the context of protecting lone workers.
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Northern Lincolnshire and Goole NHS Foundation Trust
East Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust
User Stories
Body worn cameras in the NHS
Hospitals and NHS services are increasingly turning to body worn camera systems to address the growing problem of aggression towards staff.
All 10 ambulance trusts in the UK have implemented body worn cameras – three years ahead of schedule. Other trusts across the country are adopting this technology to address staff safety challenges including United Lincolnshire Hospitals NHS Trust, University Hospitals Coventry and Warwickshire (UHCW) NHS Trust and Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (OUH).
Body worn video technology allows healthcare staff to record incidents where they feel at risk. Any subsequent recordings are then able to be given in evidence should an actual assault occur. Bodycams have already proven effective in NHS trials in de-escalating aggressive situations.
Combine these with lone worker devices for NHS staff like an NHS personal alarm, and staff can feel significantly more comfortable handling complex or fast-changing environments.
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