Sharing information on violence saved Cardiff £7m in health, legal, and social costs in 2007

Every pound spent on sharing information about violent incidents between emergency departments and local authorities in Cardiff between 2003 and 2007 led to savings of £82 (€97; $132) in health, social, and criminal justice costs, a cost benefit analysis has found.

In 2007 the Cardiff Violence Prevention Programme slashed £7m from the health, societal, and criminal justice costs caused by violence in the city, say the researchers in the journal Injury Prevention.1

The scheme, which was …