The alarm bells warning us about the state of Scotland’s NHS are now deafening.
The fact that almost 2000 employees at the country’s showpiece facility – Glasgow’s Queen Elizabeth University Hospital (QEUH) – have signed a letter to their bosses urging them to act over the lack of staff should be the wake-up call they need.
QEUH staff, the majority of whom are nurses, have taken the unprecedented step of writing to highlight the
“intolerable” conditions they are working under.