Violence prevention and reduction standard

The NHS England Violence prevention and reduction (VPR) standard has been updated. For primary care, it is acknowledged that the structure is different to secondary care and the way in which it is able to introduce and embed the VPR Standard may differ. NHS England encourage using the standard as a framework – the new high-level assessment and improvement action plan has been created to support this. Elements of the standard can be incorporated into pre-existing strategies and policies, including mitigating the risk of violence, incident reporting and post-incident support offers.

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