Patient threatens doctor with knife on psych ward

A junior doctor narrowly escaped serious injury after he was threatened with a knife in a hospital corridor by a psychiatric patient.

The incident, at Waterford Regional Hospital, has been heavily criticised by the Psychiatric Nurses Association as a further sign of the risks posed to staff working in the sector.

Trade newspaper the Medical Independent has reported the threat took place in the major South East facility’s department of psychiatry unit in November.