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A DOCTOR was flown in from Jamaica to provide temporary cover for a hospital battling a major recruitment crisis.
The locum consultant was hired for just over five weeks because Aberdeen Royal Infirmary was left without a top anaesthetist.
NHS Grampian paid £1,535 pounds for the doctor's return flight from Kingston to Aberdeen in June.
Pay rates for the period from June 23 to August 1 started at £46 an hour and rose to £68 for the last two weeks.
The crisis-hit health board then paid more than £2,175 to fly in a consultant in from India to cover a weekend shift in the casualty department a few weeks after the anaesthetist returned home.
http://www.heraldscotland.com/news/...ctor-in-from-the-caribbean-for-cover.25898403
The locum consultant was hired for just over five weeks because Aberdeen Royal Infirmary was left without a top anaesthetist.
NHS Grampian paid £1,535 pounds for the doctor's return flight from Kingston to Aberdeen in June.
Pay rates for the period from June 23 to August 1 started at £46 an hour and rose to £68 for the last two weeks.
The crisis-hit health board then paid more than £2,175 to fly in a consultant in from India to cover a weekend shift in the casualty department a few weeks after the anaesthetist returned home.
http://www.heraldscotland.com/news/...ctor-in-from-the-caribbean-for-cover.25898403