The high security hospital houses some of Scotland's most dangerous patients
Retired staff from the high security state hospital Carstairs are being asked to come back to work and help solve their current staffing crisis. The hospital, which houses some of Scotland's most dangerous psychiatric patients, is experiencing a severe shortage as they are failing to attract new staff to work at the facility.
"Nobody blames them for this but they return with a different attitude, which includes less responsibility, work in different wards, no line manager and they don't pick up anywhere near as much work as they could, so it puts lots of pressure on the full-time staff to pick up the slack when they're already struggling."
And just in the last few days hospital chiefs have been sending urgent appeals to employees looking for volunteers to cover shifts for as little as two hours. People on annual leave are also being encouraged to offer to work overtime. Get the latest headlines sent straight to your inbox with our newsletter Did you know you can keep up to date with the latest news by signing up to our daily newsletter?We also send coronavirus updates at 5pm on weekdays, and a round up of the week's must-read stories on Sunday afternoons.You can pop your email address into the sign up box above, hit Subscribe and we'll do the rest.The whistleblower said the librarian was basically a tick on a sheet to make the numbers "look good.
Killers Robert Mone and Thomas McCulloch went on a murderous rampage in the Lanarkshire facility in 1976 and left three people dead, including a nurse, patient and police officer. Mone, 27, and McCulloch, 26, broke out of the hospital after murdering nurse Neil McLellan, 46, and another inmate, 40-year-old double murderer Iain Simpson.
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