Two health boards paid more than £1,500 for an agency nurse to cover a single hospital shift, new figures reveal.
NHS Lanarkshire spent £1,565 on a single shift in 2015-16, while the largest amount paid by NHS Lothian in the past three years was £1,528.
The figures were obtained under Freedom of Information by the Scottish Conservatives, who branded them “a slap in the face” to NHS staff nurses.