Audit Scotland: NHS staffing threat to post-Covid recovery
Stephen Boyle, Auditor General for Scotland, said recruiting the right levels of NHS staff has been a concern for many years.
"One of the key conclusions in our report is that the NHS needs to reform to become more financially sustainable, rather than reinventing back to where we were before the pandemic on an already unsustainable model, " he said. Those boards - NHS Ayrshire and Arran; NHS Borders; NHS Dumfries and Galloway; NHS Fife; NHS Highland; and NHS Orkney - have been submitting monthly plans to the Scottish government since last year about how they plan to achieve savings.Health Secretary Humza Yousaf said the pandemic had put the NHS under the most severe pressure in its 73-year existence and echoed the report's praise for the "extraordinary commitment" shown by health and social care staff.
"Today's report also supports the view we have long held - and was clearly the case pre-pandemic - that the NHS in Scotland is financially unsustainable, and that position is worsening," he said.
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