Carstairs asking retired staff to come back to work amid staffing crisis

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Retired staff from the high security state hospital Carstairs are being asked to come back to work and help solve their current staffing crisis.

The hospital, which houses some of Scotland's most dangerous psychiatric patients, is experiencing a severe shortage as they are failing to attract new staff to work at the facility.

Whistleblowers have claimed the recruitment crisis is putting staff and patients at risk and claim an incident similar to the 1976 massacre is "on the cards".A source said: "People who are retiring are being urged to tick the box on their forms to consider coming back.

Some are retiring one week and back the next working part-time."Nobody blames them for this but they return with a different attitude, which includes less responsibility, work in different wards, no line manager and they don't pick up anywhere near as much work as they could, so it puts lots of pressure on the full-time staff to pick up the slack when they're already struggling."Another whistleblower said: "The place is now so dangerous they think bringing in supplementary staff from retirees is going to help.