BURNOUT IS LEAVING NHS ON BRINK

EXHAUSTED medics are being pushed to the brink after data revealed the level of understaffed shifts in our hospitals.

- By Richard Elias

The statistics showed managers struggling to fill 900 shifts a day.

There were 333,296 unfilled nurse and midwife shifts last year, according to the FOI data. The stats suggests on average NHS managers were struggling to fill more than 900 shifts every day.

The party insist has said NHS staff are being driven "to the point of burnout" by the Scottish Government.

Scottish Labour's health spokesperson Dame Jackie Baillie said: "Working an NHS shift has always been demanding but these alarming figures show our doctors, nurses and midwives are stretched beyond their limit with patients suffering as a result.

"Our hard-working NHS staff will always do their best but they are let down by an SNP government that fritters away millions on expensive agency staff while leaving doctors without jobs and patients at risk.

"The SNP Government is driving NHS staff to the point of burnout - it must deal with this workforce crisis before it becomes a doom loop.