A SHORTAGE of junior doctors is putting some patients in Scotland at risk, the Royal College of Physicians claims.
There were 88 vacancies in NHS Lanarkshire and Greater Glasgow and Clyde last month.
NHS Lanarkshire said a shortage of new doctors had created vulnerable areas in its hospitals, including care for newborns and general medicine at Wishaw General and Monklands Hospital in Airdrie. It said additional neonatal consultants had been appointed, it is actively recruiting and also working to fill vacancies with locum doctors.
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