Hospitals fail to share knife crime information with police
Date published: 08 April 2010
Pennine Acute Trust, the Trust that runs Rochdale Infirmary, Fairfield Hospital, North Manchester General and Oldham Royal, does not share knife crime information with the police - information that has been proven to significantly cut knife crime.
Recent research has revealed that the Trust is one of 99 of the 143 hospital trusts in England that are not following the 'Cardiff Model'.
In the ‘Cardiff Model’, A&E wards collect information about the precise locations and times of violent incidents and share it anonymously with the police. This model first started in 2002 and has led to a 40% fall in violent assaults in the first five years.
Paul Rowen MP said: “It is astonishing that so many trusts are not sharing this data with police. It is a simple and low cost measure which is proven to drastically cut knife crime. Heads at the Department of Health and the Home Office must communicate to ensure that the Cardiff Model is used in every emergency ward in the country.”
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