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<p>The number of assaults by mental health patients on National Health Service staff
reported in each of the last five years is not available in the format requested.
However, the following table shows the number of physical assaults where the perpetrator
did not know what they were doing, or did not know what they were doing was wrong
due to medical illness, mental ill health, severe learning disabilities or treatment
administration from 2011/12 to 2015/16.</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>2015/16</p></td><td><p>52,704</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2014/15</p></td><td><p>51,372</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2013/14</p></td><td><p>53,484</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2012/13</p></td><td><p>48,469</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2011/12</p></td><td><p>46,265</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p>
</p><p>Physical assaults data has not been collected centrally since 2015/16. On 31
October 2018, the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care announced a new NHS
National Violence Reduction strategy which will include a new central physical assaults
data collection. These data will help NHS organisations benchmark their progress in
protecting their staff against physical assaults and support the spread of good practice.</p><p>
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