🔴 Jason Leitch encourages wearing face masks and staying away from work if ill to help NHS

NHS Scotland crisis: Jason Leitch encourages wearing face masks and staying away from work if ill to help NHS

Scotland’s national clinical director has urged those who are unwell to stay away from work to help the NHS.

Jason Leitch said people should not “lose hope” about the state of the health service, which has come under severe pressure. On Tuesday, senior medics said they have never been more concerned about the standards of acute medical care in hospitals across the UK.

Some have described ambulances queueing outside emergency departments and being forced to treat patients outside the doors of the hospital. Speaking to the BBC’s Good Morning Scotland Radio programme, Professor Leitch said accident-and-emergency (A&E) services were not the only part of the health service feeling the squeeze.

He said: “If we lose hope, then we’re in trouble. So there are things we can do in the system to make it better.”

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