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Scotland's NHS staffing crisis won't be solved by deploying student nurses, Union warns
A nurse puts on PPE on a ward for Covid patients at King's College Hospital, in south east London
SCOTLAND’S NHS staffing crisis will not be solved by using student nurses, Unison warned today.
SNP ministers have confirmed that 12,000 students will be deployed across the health service north of the border to help fight Covid-19.
The rapid spread of the omicron variant has caused many staff to go off sick or be forced to self-isolate, exacerbating a record high for vacancies which pre-dated the pandemic.
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