More than 100,000 people have been hurt in accidents in Scottish Hospitals in the last 4 years, a Freedom of Information request has revealed. 

The Daily Record report:

MINISTERS are under pressure to probe shocking figures that reveal more than 100,000 people have been hurt in ­accidents in Scottish hospitals in just four years.

Injuries from bruises to broken limbs, amputations and even deaths, have been recorded in the supposed safety of NHS wards since 2009. Injuries from electric shocks, burns, inhalation of toxic fumes and from “fixtures and fittings collapsing” are detailed.

An average of 64 people every day have been hurt, the majority of them patients, although staff, student nurses and visitors have also been involved.

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Matthew Burgess
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I am a journalist and author. I am a journalist at the UK edition of WIRED magazine. In 2015, my first book Freedom of Information: A Practical Guide for UK Journalists, was published. My second book Reed Hastings: Building Netflix, was published in March 2020. I created FOI Directory in 2012 and have maintained it in my spare time ever since.