Freedom of Information Request – Ref: GHC-23102025-100238
Thank you for your recent Freedom of Information request. Please find our response below.
You asked:
1. The number of reported incidents of racism/racist abuse towards staff by patients in 2022, 2023, 2024, and the first nine months of 2025, categorised in calendar years.
2. From the figures given in question 1, can you specify how many of the reported incidents were:
a) verbal
b) physical assaults please.
Data be split with a) and b) columns and categorised in calendar years please
Our response:
| Year | Verbal incidents where race was an aggravating factor | Physical incidents where race was an aggravating factor | Racial incidents where verbal / physical element is not specified | Total incidents |
| 2022 | 27 | 34 | 75 | 136 |
| 2023 | 25 | 19 | 85 | 129 |
| 2024 | 35 | 25 | 138 | 198 |
| 2025 (Jan to Sept) | 24 | 27 | 107 | 158 |
| Total | 111 | 105 | 405 | 621 |
Next steps:
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Louise Moss
Head of Legal Services / Associate Director of Corporate Governance
c/o Gloucestershire Health and Care NHS Foundation Trust
Edward Jenner Court
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Gloucester Business Park
Brockworth, GL3 4AW
E-mail: louise.moss@ghc.nhs.uk
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