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Nurse sickness in Scotland far exceeds planning assumptions, RCN warns

Jerome Smail

06 May 2026

Nursing workforce gaps in Scotland are reaching ‘critical levels’, according to the Royal College of Nursing (RCN), with the organisation warning that current sickness absence rates are almost double than those allowed for in the current planning system.

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