Violence Reduction
Our Mission
We are leading the way in shaping how the NHS can support violence reduction in order to have better wellbeing in our communities at a population and individual level.
The reduction and impact of the prevalence of violence in London is one of the ten priorities of the health and care vision for London to be the healthiest global city – London Vision
Key contacts
Clinical Director: Martin Griffiths
Consultant Trauma Surgeon, Royal London Hospital
Clinical Leads
Training and Education Niamh Ni-Longain
Consultant in adult and paediatric emergency medicine, Homerton Hospital
In-Hospital Michael Carver
Lead Nurse for Violence Reduction, The Royal London Hospital
Social Prescribing and Primary Care Arun Hansi
GP, Enfield
Data and Intelligence Adam Woodgate
Consultant in Emergency Medicine & Consultant with Physician Response Unit (London’s Air Ambulance), The Royal London Hospital
Meet the team.
Programme Lead: Sinead Dervin
Head of Health and Justice, NHS England and Improvement (London)
Senior Programme Manager: Claire Ruiz
Project Managers: Adetola Masha, Kamal Pasha, Tukiya Mutupa and Kirstie Jarvie
Communications: Jon Winter
Email the team: england.violencereduction@nhs.net
Twitter: @martinpgriff
Sign up to the London Violence Reduction bulletin
News
- Trauma surgeon and violence reduction lead Martin Griffiths awarded CBE – Barts Health NHS Trust
- Top surgeon appointed first NHS clinical director for violence reduction – NHS news story
- Clinical Director Martin Griffiths on the best way to tackle youth violence – King’s Fund podcast
- Top surgeon named as first ‘violence reduction chief’ – Evening Standard
- Top surgeon Martin Griffiths appointed by NHS to tackle rising knife crime in London – ITV
Recent programme documents
NHS Violence London programme – high-level overview of the workstreams
CPN Minutes – 14 Jan 2020, 28 April 2020, 21 July 2020, 13 Oct 2020