Fourteen staff members take time off after patient assaults at new mental health ward
About this episode
The episode discusses the impact of patient assaults on staff at a new mental health ward and raises concerns about staffing levels.
Fourteen staff members have had to take time off work after being assaulted by patients at Palmerston North Hospital's new mental health ward, Ngā Wai Ngāro, since it opened in February. Now the brother of a former patient of the service, who died by suicide while under hospital care, says inadequate staffing levels are putting people at risk. Jimmy Ellingham reports.
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