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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
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Lydia Chantler-Hicks

Violent patients face ban as east London NHS staff wear bodycams to combat rise in assaults

An east London hospitals trust is introducing new rules that will make it easier to ban abusive patients from using its services.

The move by Barking, Havering and Redbridge University Hospitals NHS Trust (BHR Hospitals) comes as violence against its staff has more than doubled in three years.

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