Greater Manchester Violence Reduction Unit: The hospital-based Navigator programme

Ellison, Mark ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9019-6582, Krzemieniewska-Nandwani, Karolina ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9172-3698, Bannister, Jon ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1350-510X and Hall, Ben (2024) Greater Manchester Violence Reduction Unit: The hospital-based Navigator programme. Project Report. Manchester Metropolitan University, Manchester.

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Abstract

In December 2020, the Greater Manchester Violence Reduction Unit commissioned a hospital-based Navigator violence reduction pilot programme in four hospitals. It was established with reference to the remit guiding the Violence Reduction Unit and informed by recognition of the (perceived) large number of young people in Greater Manchester presenting at emergency departments with violence-related injuries and of the promise offered by hospital-based violence interventions to redress this problem. The programme was designed with reference to pre-existing (national and international) hospital-based violence interventions and delivered by an organisation (Oasis) with experience of this type of intervention. The programme became operational in May 2021 and has been recommissioned until March 2025. It seeks to support those young people (aged 10-25) who attend or have been admitted to an adult or paediatric Emergency department or hospital ward with injuries resulting from violence. It aims, through offering support at a ‘teachable moment’, to help young people to cope with and recover from their experiences, to prevent retaliation, the escalation of violence and / or repeat victimisation, and to reduce exploitation. Where on-going needs are identified, the programme endeavours to refer young people to appropriate community services in GM, continuing to engage with young people after they leave hospital.