A HOSPITAL has stopped admitting patients to its children's ward for three weeks in a move blamed on staff shortages.
St John's Hospital in Livingston, West Lothian, will still assess patients on weekdays but will have to transfer children to Edinburgh if they need to be admitted.
NHS Lothian said the controversial decision was "not taken lightly".
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