Scotland’s NHS ‘cannot survive’ its workforce crisis without real change, Scottish Labour warns
NHS 24 contact centre at the Golden Jubilee National Hospital in Glasgow
SCOTTISH Labour has said that Scotland’s NHS “cannot survive” its workforce crisis without real change.
Patient numbers have increased rapidly over the last decade as the number of GPs has fallen, according to statistics released by Public Health Scotland.
There were 5.6 million patients in 2013 and almost 6m in 2022, while GP numbers have fallen from 3,675 to 3,494 over the same period.
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