Information Sharing to Tackle Violence (ISTV)

Preventing serious violence using ED data

Your hospital. Your community. The part you play.

‘Information Sharing to Tackle Violence (ISTV)’ is a national programme which sets to reinvigorate the recording of data in EDs.

A guide for clerical staff	A guide for clinical staff	A guide for all healthcare workers

The overall aim is to help reduce serious violence – a role in which those working in EDs play a critical part.

• When we know where and how people are injured, up to one-third of injuries from violence can be prevented
• Research shows  violence-related injuries treated in the ED decreases by up to one-third when data is collated effectively
• Information is shared anonymously with community safety partnership teams with the aim to prevent violence-related injuries, especially knife and gang related assaults.

We are asking all EDs to read and adopt the new Standard Operating Procedure (SOP).

Three short films have been produced to help those inputting data to show why their support is important, how they can make a difference and the detail that will help form the bigger picture. Please also see Documentation below.

NHS Poster for hospital waiting areas ‘We need your help to make our communities safer…’

Understanding the ISTV Programme

A guide for Clerical Staff – also see the accompanying guide in Documentation below.

Newsletter: March 2025

Newsletter: April 2025

As part of our drive to increase awareness of ISTV, we spoke to the mastermind who developed the Cardiff Model, from which ISTV was borne. Professor Jonathan Shepherd CBE developed the Cardiff Model for violence prevention to help capture data on violence-related crime that all too often goes unreported – almost three-quarters of those attending EDs having been injured in violence do not tell the police.

Understanding the ISTV Programme

A guide for ED Clinical Staff – also see the accompanying guide in Documentation below.

How you and your ED can support the ISTV Programme

A guide for all healthcare workers – also see the accompanying guide in Documentation below.

Features from the event launch, 6 March 2024

Presentations

• The Greater Manchester Violence Reduction Unit – Rachel Jenner
• ISTV in London – Adam Woodgate
• The Cardiff Model for Violence Prevention – Jonathan Shepherd
• The Serious Violence Duty – Laura Baynton and Neil Round
• Violence Prevention Data Sharing and the ED – Katie Wright
• Violence Reduction Data in the ED – Michael Cheetham

Videos

ISTV and Where it Fits In – Adrian Boyle

ISTV in London – Adam Woodgate

The Cardiff Model for Violence Prevention – Jonathan Shepherd

Violence Reduction Data in the ED – Michael Cheetham

Violence prevention, data sharing and the ED – Dr Katie Wright

Greater Manchester Violence Reduction Unit – Dr Rachel Jenner

Discussion Panel – Adam Woodgate, Dr Katie Wright, Dr Rachel Jenner

Documentation

ISTV Standard Operating Procedure

ISTV Standard Operating Procedure FAQs

ISTV Standard Operating Procedure Factsheet

ISTV Standard Operating Procedure Checklist

ISTV Clerical Staff Guide

ISTV Clinical Staff Guide

ISTV All Healthcare Staff Guide