Dr Graeme Eunson (inset) said many senior consultants,who entered the profession in the 1990s, had run out of gas SCOTLAND’S health service is facing a “perfect storm” of huge waiting list backlogs and consultant vacancies which are more than double official estimates, according to a new report. Freedom of information research by BMA Scotland suggests that just over 15 per cent of consultant posts are empty once vacancies which are not being advertised or which health boards have “tried and failed to fill” are taken into account. These are excluded from Scottish Government data, which put the vacancy rate at 6.3%, something the trade union warns means they “significantly underestimate the scale of the problem”.
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