This piece is more than three months old, says the Guardian, but I don’t imagine things have improved. https://www.theguardian.com/society/2024/feb/25/they-bite-they-hit-they-spit-patients-assault-staff-at-nottingham-hospital I suspect that people spending hour after hour watching onscreen vileness and violence is to blame - they begin to lose touch with what most people would regard as normal life. The people who do that don’t tend to be among the brightest to start off with.