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Craig Williams

Scots junior doctors ’struggling’ as two ‘overworked’ Glasgow medics lost to suicide in 2021

Junior doctors in Scotland are ’struggling’ amid the tragic news that two ‘overworked’ Glasgow medics were lost to suicide in 2021.

Lailah Peel, chair of the British Medical Association’s Scottish junior doctors committee, fears overstretched medics will be killed due to the extreme pressures and workloads that NHS staff are having to cope with, The Times reports.

She issued the warning while also revealing that the tolls faced by medics cost the lives of two junior doctors to suicide in Glasgow last year.

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