Staffordshire and Stoke on Trent Special Allocations Scheme

The Staffordshire and Stoke-on-Trent Integrated Care Board currently commission the Special Allocations Service (SAS) across the ICB area. The SAS has been in place since 2004 having previously been known as the violent patient's scheme.   Patients currently registered with the SAS scheme have either acted in an abusive, threatening or violent way towards GP practice staff (or their patients).  The patients are only removed from general practice and onto the SAS scheme if NHSE patient removal guidance ha...