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Laura Ferguson

Police called to Glasgow hospitals 4,400 times as 'worrying' new figures emerge

Police have been called to deal with incidents at Glasgow's hospitals and health centres on more than 4,400 occasions in the last five years.

The thousands of cases, predominantly involving violence and aggression towards staff and patients, have been recorded since 2018.

The figures, obtained through Freedom of Information requests by policing and justice magazine 1919, show that nearly 10,000 incidents occurred over the five years, meaning almost half of all instances occurred within the NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde area.

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