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Hospital worker stabbed in Brighton
A man has been arrested on suspicion of attempted murder after a member of staff was stabbed at a hospital in Brighton yesterday. The Royal Sussex County Hospital was placed into lockdown following the incident yesterday morning. Sussex Police said the attack was not being treated as a terrorist attack and no one else had been hurt. They added that a 30-year-old man had been arrested on suspicion of attempted murder. He is currently in custody. The staff member’s wounds were assessed as not life threatening. A spokesperson said: “At 8.42am on Sunday police were called to the Royal Sussex County Hospital in Brighton after a report that a member of staff had sustained a stab wound. The hospital site was quickly secured while officers have been working with security staff to confirm that nobody else has been injured, and that staff and patients are safe.
Following immediate police searches and inquiries, a 30-year-old man was arrested in nearby Wilson
Avenue at 9.40am on suspicion of attempted murder, and is currently in custody for interview and further inquiries. This apparently isolated and unexplained incident is not being treated as terrorism at this time and there is currently nothing to suggest that any other person has been involved or that anyone else is at risk.”
NHS staff to receive ‘air accident’ safety training
Frontline NHS staff will be given specialist “air accident investigation” training to help improve the way the health service learns from patient safety incidents. Cranfield University, which has been training air, maritime and rail safety investigators for more than 40 years, is to launch the first intensive course for NHS staff responsible for investigating safety incidents in hospitals. It is part of a growing effort to instal a safety approach to avoidable harm in the NHS, with the service increasingly looking to other industries to adopt new approaches based on the science of human factors.
Traditionally, the NHS has focused on simpler investigations that too often miss systemic causes of mistakes and instead target individual nurses and doctors for blame. The new one-week intensive course, run in partnership with the charity Baby Lifeline, will start in January and will give students a basic grounding in the science of investigation and will use real-life actors and a maternity-based scenario to show participants how to get to the real causes of what went wrong. There are more than 10,000 severe harm and death incidents reported in the NHS each year and, overall, more than 2 million incidents including near misses which did not cause harm to patients.
Found car ‘may be linked to 30-year-old missing person case’
A car found in a river in Northern Ireland may be linked to a missing person case from nearly 30 years ago, police have said. The national police force said the discovery could potentially have a connection to the disappearance of James Patterson, who went missing in 1991. The vehicle was found in the River Bann in Bellaghy, a village in County Londonderry. Police investigating Patterson’s three decade-old missing person case launched a recovery operation for the car yesterday, according to the Police Service of Northern Ireland. The Ford Orion was found in the river at New Ferry Road in the Northern Irish village. It was discovered by a local community search and rescue team on Saturday. The car will undergo forensic examinations, police said. Patterson went missing around 30 years ago after being last seen at Mid Ulster Hospital in County Londonderry, according to the Belfast Telegraph. He was 54 years old at the time, the newspaper reported.
Police pelted with canisters and bottles at illegal party
The Metropolitan Police has released bodycam footage from officers who were struck by flying objects as they shut down an illegal street party in London in the early hours of Saturday morning. The video shows several bottles and canisters being flung at the officers and the sound of glass smashing around them can be heard as they approached the mass gathering at the Woodberry Down estate in Finsbury Park. Two officers were injured – one was taken to hospital with bruising to his ribs and later discharged, while the other suffered a minor leg injury. Lucy D’Orsi, the Met’s deputy assistant commissioner, said she wanted to share the footage and ask the question: could you or would you want to do their job? The police force was deployed to the estate following more than 30 calls from residents who “were scared to leave their homes” as up to 300 “youths were fighting and smashing up property” from 11pm on Friday night, she said.