More than 500 Scottish Ambulance Service staff were absent from work with mental health or stress issues in just four months.
The Record has been telling of the crisis in the SAS for months, with spiralling ambulance turnaround times, queues outside hospitals to deliver patients and lengthy waiting times for ambulances to arrive for desperately ill patients – resulting in deaths.
A Freedom of Information request has revealed in the four months between September 2021 and January 2022, 553 members of staff needed to take time off work due to mental health or stress issues.
