Doctors told to report knife wounds / Guardian, 7 July 2008
http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2008/jul/07/justice.knifecrime?gusrc=rss&feed=politics
Hélène Mulholland
"Accident and emergency departments in hospitals will be expected to contact police when patients are treated for stab wounds in the same way that they already have to report gunshot wounds, the government has confirmed. Currently doctors are only compelled to report bullet wounds to the police. But amid fears that many knife crimes go unreported, the home secretary, Jacqui Smith, told Channel 4 last night said that doctors will be bound to report any serious wounding of patients they treat in the future."