Over 5,000 NHS staff in Northern Ireland have been attacked while working, it has today been revealed.
The British Medical Association (BMA) has said that it is to survey doctors as part of a new strategy to ensure that those who terrorise staff will be dealt with accordingly.
BMA chiefs have insisted that a zero tolerance attitude was required after some doctors were left too traumatised to work.
The threat has become so great that at the Ulster Hospital, on the outskirts of east Belfast, that staff are being trained in martial arts, to enable them to protect themselves from violent patients.
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