Over a quarter of those assaults are on psychiatric wards which doesn't surprise me.
I had to work 3 weeks on a psychiatric ward in the 80's and i was frankly terrified of both the staff and patients.
So many mental health nurses have mental health problems themselves and the patients are either very vulnerable or very intimidating.
In 3 weeks I had coffee thrown over me and my uniform, dress in those days, ripped open from top to bottom.
On Boxing day they had Towering Inferno playing on the TV , I was convinced someone would set the whole place on fire during that shift.
An old woman used to masturbate openly in a 4 bedded bay.
A young schizophrenic girl, at most 18, who should never have been in that setting was inconsolable.
And a poor woman who had just had a dc2 and had pnd and was incoherent. Also should not have been there imo.
It was like hell on earth.