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Jane Hamilton

Carstairs asking retired staff to come back to work amid staffing crisis

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.

Whistleblowers have claimed the recruitment crisis is putting staff and patients at risk and claim an incident similar to the 1976 massacre is "on the cards".

A source said: "People who are retiring are being urged to tick the box on their forms to consider coming back. Some are retiring one week and back the next working part-time.

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