Record View looks at the sums of money spent on locum psychiatrists in Scotland.
Spending tens of millions every year on these temporary consultants is not sustainable and something needs to change.
Now we can report that the combined bill for all health boards for locum psychiatrists has hit the £30million mark in one year. Top news stories today The only way to drive the bill down is to invest. A key part of this is training more staff but also looking seriously at how to attract new staff and retain those workers the NHS already has.
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