Sexual offences on hospital sites
Freedom of Information (FOI) Act request ref: 01/FOI/25/008902/C
Version Date: 27/10/2025
The Performance & Analysis Department has provided the following information:
Data Source:
Crime data from Niche
Data Processing:
Qliksense "Crime & Outcomes" report, filtered on:
Include No-Crimes "Yes";
Offence Groups "Rape" and "Other Sexual Offences";
Month Crimed "Apr-20" to "Mar-25";
MO Location containing "Hospital" (but excluding "Hospitality").
Chart Builder populated and data exported.
Other Sexual Offences which do not mention "Sexual Assault" in the Home Office Group Description were removed.
Qliksense "Occurrence - People Links (all)" report, filtered on:
Offence Groups "Rape" and "Other Sexual Offences";
Month Crimed "Apr-2020" to "Mar-2025"
Offender "Yes".
Chart Builder populated and data exported.
"Crime & Outcomes" export further filtered to remove non-Offender Outcomes
Person Occupation at Time field matched in from "Occurrence - People Links" export.
Data Limitations:
The Person Occupation at Time field is not well populated.
It is possible that the increase for 2024/25 may be partially due to better recording of MO Location, but this has not been tested.
- In the years 2020 - 2021, 2021 - 2022, 2022 - 2023, 2023 - 2024, 2024 - 2025, how many police reports alleging rape and/or sexual assault on a hospital site were made?
|
Home Office Group Description by Financial Year (Crimed Date) |
2020/21 |
2021/22 |
2022/23 |
2023/24 |
2024/25 |
|
Rape of a Female - Multiple Undefined Offenders |
0 |
0 |
1 |
0 |
0 |
|
Rape of a Female aged 16 and over |
6 |
6 |
3 |
1 |
14 |
|
Rape of a Female Child under 16 |
0 |
1 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
|
Rape of a Male aged 16 and over |
1 |
2 |
2 |
1 |
2 |
|
Rape of a Male Child under 16 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
1 |
0 |
|
Sexual Assault on a Female aged 13 and over |
20 |
29 |
23 |
19 |
53 |
|
Sexual Assault on a Female Child under 13 |
0 |
2 |
0 |
1 |
0 |
|
Sexual Assault on a Male aged 13 and over |
6 |
7 |
9 |
6 |
41 |
|
Total |
33 |
47 |
38 |
29 |
110 |
- Of these, how many of the alleged perpetrators worked for the NHS at the time of the offence?
There was one offender in 2022/23 whose occupation was recorded as Nurse
- Of these, how many of the alleged offences took place on hospital wards?
1 (2022/23)
- How many of these accusations led to a charge?
1 (same offence as above).