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Lanarkshire Live

Retired Carstairs Hospital staff being asked to come back to work amidst staff shortages

Retired staff from Carstairs Hospital are being asked to come back to work and help solve their current staffing crisis.

The high security state hospital, which houses some of Scotland's most dangerous psychiatric patients, is experiencing a severe shortage as they are failing to attract new staff to work at the facility.

Whistleblowers have claimed the recruitment crisis is putting staff and patients at risk and claim an incident similar to the 1976 massacre is "on the cards".

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