Steve Barclay accused of breaking pledge over NHS staff abuse data

A GMB union survey in January of more than 1,000 ambulance staff found 77% had experienced physical or verbal abuse while on a shift in the previous year. Photograph: Andy Rain/EPA

NHS staff have accused Steve Barclay of breaking a pledge to publish details of how many of them are abused and assaulted in the course of their work.

In 2018, when Barclay was a junior minister in the Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC), he promised he would resume publication of those statistics in the following year.