and still they can't find their own arse with a map any longer.
NHS Scotland spends ‘farcical’ £360,000 on actors to train medics The budget for actors to role-play patients would be better spent on frontline services, says Scottish Labour
NHS Scotland has been attacked for spending hundreds of thousands of pounds on a “farcical” use of professional actors to play fake patients to help train medics. About £360,000 has been set aside to pay actors and role-players to impersonate people with illnesses and medical conditions to help doctors and nurses hone their skills.
The spending is against the background of a cash-stretched NHS in Scotland. At the end of last year, Stephen Boyle, the auditor-general, warned that the finances of NHS Scotland were “unsustainable”. Earlier this month, Audit Scotland, Scotland’s spending watchdog, warned of “unprecedented” financial challenges at NHS Ayrshire & Arran, while NHS Grampian must redesign its health and social care system to balance the books.