Accident and Emergency Dept. Data Sharing to Reduce Alcohol- Related Violence and Violent Crime

Objectives: Why use A&E Data? The Process of Data Sharing; Partnership working; London so far….. Learning: Is there more we can do? Looking to the Future: Local Strategies for Local Needs!

Local Strategies for London: Create a “London Model” to tailor data sharing for a city with variable needs; Locality Specific to demands; Develop community safety dependent on local problems; Overall: Create a safer community for living and working! Reduce Alcohol related hospital admissions; Reduce Alcohol related violence on the streets; Reduction of violent crime.

London So Far: Ten NHS Trusts are sharing data; Further three to go live by mid-October; All local boroughs engaged;

What Data Are We Sharing? NEW DATA - ESSENTIAL Assault Type Assault location Body Part Weapon Pushed Unknown Body Part Fist Feet Head Other Weapon Glass Bottle Knife Blunt object Gun Other Bar/pub Club Street Own home Someone else’s home Workplace Other Free text facility to give specific details of location EXISTING DATA Age & gender Postcode of Residence Incident Type Assault Date & time of assault

Why Use A&E Data? A&E’s see more assaults than are reported; A&E’s can spot trends in injury data before other authorities; Enable targeted policing and community safety initiatives’ De-personalised data allows for analysis of trends in the location of assaults; Potential to build into Safeguarding procedures; Build safer communities – clinical engagement with the Community Safety Partnerships

Case Study: The Cardiff Model Data Sharing Model presented here is based on Cardiff Lead by Professor Jonathan Shepherd Data collected in A&E’s lead to identification of troublesome hotspots of crime and disorder the police formally were unaware of; Identified repeat attendees to the department; Result: Overall reduction of hospital attendances in Cardiff; Reduction of crimes related to alcohol in the city centre

Community Safety: Improve the design of licensed premises and management; Replace glass bottles with plastic ones; Appropriate staff training to encourage responsible drinking and customer care; Safer outside environments; CCTV, numbers of bars in one area, food outlets, street lighting; Traffic light system with local alcohol outlets to reduce problem establishments; Work along side police teams to monitor the night time economy and episodes of violent assaults.

How do we ‘use’ or ‘want’ to use the data? St Thomas

The Virtuous Circle Police Action / Targeted Intervention Alcohol-Related Assault Community Safety Data Collected in Emergency Department Identify Share Information Data Matching and Analysis Solution to cause – crime reduction