Health and Safety Law 2024 (October 2024)

RCN nurses’ union research carried out in 2021 found a 50% increase in sharps injuries since 2008. Fifteen per cent of more than 7,500 RCN members taking part in the union survey said they had suffered a sharps injury in 2020.

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