At least five wards at Scotland’s showpiece hospital were forced to operate with just a single registered nurse on duty as the NHS crisis deepens.
The shortage on Monday evening at Glasgow’s Queen Elizabeth University Hospital affected wards including gastroenterology, rheumatology and diabetes.
Greater Glasgow & Clyde Health Board wrote to staff asking them to “continue to support the nurse teams and where possible check in more frequently on the following wards … who will only have 1 Registered Nurse tonight”.