Staff feeling unsafe after assaults at Palmerston North Hospital

On the same day a nurse was held up at gunpoint at Palmerston North Hospital, another staff member was knocked unconscious and still hasn't returned to work three weeks on. Checkpoint has been told that not a day goes by without a health worker getting abused or assaulted, and staff are feeling frightened and unsafe. They want security guards to be given additional powers so that - as happens in courts and in Parliament - they're able to restrain violent patients. Jimmy Ellingham reports.