A Tory MSP has blasted the Scottish Government for a "reliance" on agency staff within the NHS which saw Lanarkshire's health board fork out £41m during the last financial year.
The latest figures for 2021/22 reveal an increase of £9.6m on the previous year and £18m since 2014-15 for NHS Lanarkshire.
And Graham Simpson MSP says the statistics "sum up the gross mismanagement" of the NHS by the SNP government.