Description
An NHS Trust was liable for injuries inflicted on nursing staff by a patient at a high security hospital where it had not implemented a policy recommended by the Safety and Security in Ashworth, Broadmoor and Rampton Hospitals Directions 2000. Had a risk assessment of the patient been carried out in accordance with that policy, which would have led to her being assessed as presenting an exceptionally high risk of causing serious injury to others, she would have been confined in her room at night with the result that the incident would not have occurred.
