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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Craig Paton

NHS capacity issues make pandemic planning ‘extremely difficult’, says ex-CMO

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Capacity issues in Scotland’s NHS make it “extremely, extremely difficult” to plan for a future pandemic, the country’s former chief medical officer has said.

Dr Catherine Calderwood served in the post between 2015 and 2020, when she was forced to resign after she travelled to her holiday home in contravention of Covid regulations in the early days of the pandemic.

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