Rape, assault or being touched without consent accounted for more than one in five cases.
Freedom of Information requests were received from 212 NHS trusts and 37 police forces in England.
One former patient told File on 4 how she had been sexually assaulted by a male patient while she had been showering in a hospital. But the BMJ and Guardian investigation found that fewer than one in 10 NHS trusts has a dedicated policy to deal with sexual assault and harassment - and that managers are also no longer obliged to report abuse of staff to a central database."I'm hearing time and time again, this has happened to so many other people," says Lib Dem MP Daisy Cooper
Consultant Philippa Jackson told File on 4 she had been sexually assaulted by a senior NHS colleague when working as a junior doctor."Then he kissed me on the bottom of my neck and again I felt very uncomfortable."Consultant Philippa Jackson: "I was asked a series of questions about whether or not I had led him on"
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