A SWINDON nurse has been awarded nearly £9,000 compensation after being assaulted by a patient.
The nurse, who has not been named, suffered a severe wrist injury when the patient assaulted her.
Unison won her £8,750 in compensation for the attack.
Across the UK, Unison won a record £37,388,262 in compensation for its members in the past year. In the south-west the figure was £2,206,844.
Unison General Secretary Dave Prentis, said: "This £37m compensation represents an awful lot of pain, injury and suffering.
"Ask any one of them to choose between the compensation or their health, each would choose not to have been injured in the first place."
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