{
  "id": 8514138,
  "title": "‘Pushed, kicked, spat on’: ED staff demand 24/7 security as violence hits record levels",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/19/pushed-kicked-spat-on-ed-staff-demand-24-7-security-as-violence-hits",
  "topic": "health",
  "section": "Health & Medicine",
  "published": "2026-09-19T19:00:00.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "The Sydney Morning Herald",
    "slug": "the-sydney-morning-herald",
    "url": "https://www.smh.com.au/healthcare/pushed-kicked-spat-on-ed-staff-demand-24-7-security-as-violence-hits-record-levels-20260920-p60xg5.html?ref=rss"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "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.",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
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      {
        "outlet": "The Age",
        "title": "‘Pushed, kicked, spat on’: ED staff demand 24/7 security as violence hits record levels",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/19/pushed-kicked-spat-on-ed-staff-demand-24-7-security-as-violence-hits-8514213",
        "published": "2026-09-19T19:00:00.000Z"
      }
    ]
  },
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}