title: Besieged.
abstract: Una Bell is service director of A&E at Whipps Cross Hospital in London. On a Monday afternoon in June last year, she invited an angry woman into her office who wanted to make a complaint to a manager. What follows is her personal account of being held hostage and how the police and the courts responded to her harrowing ordeal.
authors.affiliation: A&E Department, Whipps Cross Hospital, London.
authors.forename: U
authors.initials: U
authors.lastname: Bell
mesh_terms: D004636:Emergency Service, Hospital; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008875:Middle Aged; D009718:Nurse Administrators / Q000523:psychology*; D009741:Nursing Staff, Hospital / Q000523:psychology; D016273:Occupational Exposure / Q000517:prevention & control; D011329:Prisoners / Q000523:psychology*; D012637:Security Measures; D014754:Violence / Q000517:prevention & control / Q000523:psychology*