🔴 Scotland’s NHS is “haemorrhaging” critical staff and attempts to save it from collapse will fail unless they can be persuaded to stay on, doctors have warned
Other doctors said a chronic lack of staff was making wards unsafe for patients and leading to avoidable mistakes, while another said the service provided by the NHS was comparable to a “third world country”.
“All the statistics tell us that it’s a desperate state of affairs. Things are as bad, or worse, than they have ever been. Winter is a meaningless term now – this entire year has been winter,” he added. “Scotland has record numbers of NHS staff and we are recruiting more staff as part of our £600m winter plan and £50m investment is targeting A&E waits through services that allow patients to be treated at home or in the community.
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