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‘Pushed, kicked, spat on’: ED staff demand 24/7 security as violence hits record levels

Victorian doctors and nurses are pushing for around-the-clock specialist security guards to be stationed at every emergency department amid an escalation in violent assaults and rising ‘horrific’ racial and sexualised verbal abuse driving staff out of the profession.

‘Pushed, kicked, spat on’: ED staff demand 24/7 security as violence hits record levels

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