NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde employs 44,000 people and is responsible for the care of 1.2million Scots.
It operates the single largest hospital in Scotland, the Queen Elizabeth University but its managers seem to spend more time trying to excuse its many faults than anything else.
The health board spends vast sums of taxpayers' cash every day so it cannot expect to be immune from scrutiny over its often patchy performance.
Now a report has exposed the extent of the often toxic working culture of NHS Greater Glasgow. In a 200-page probe, the internal NHS watchdog laid bare a string of grievances about staffing levels, bullying and management failures.
More than half the A&E staff at the Queen Elizabeth said that patient safety "rarely" or "never" came first in the way the department was overseen.
One employee explained how they kep...
It operates the single largest hospital in Scotland, the Queen Elizabeth University but its managers seem to spend more time trying to excuse its many faults than anything else.
The health board spends vast sums of taxpayers' cash every day so it cannot expect to be immune from scrutiny over its often patchy performance.
Now a report has exposed the extent of the often toxic working culture of NHS Greater Glasgow. In a 200-page probe, the internal NHS watchdog laid bare a string of grievances about staffing levels, bullying and management failures.
More than half the A&E staff at the Queen Elizabeth said that patient safety "rarely" or "never" came first in the way the department was overseen.
One employee explained how they kep...
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