Article: NEW BALLS FROM THE NHS; Hospital morale is collapsing so what do they do? Send our poor nurses to play tennis.(News)

Byline: THOMAS SMITH EXCLUSIVE

NURSES from a hospital at the centre of a hygiene scare have been ordered to attend a training course - at a posh tennis club.

Nine ward sisters at Glasgow's Victoria Infirmary have been told that the day in the city's Whitecraigs Tennis club will not come off their holiday entitlement.

But staff feared that bosses would have to splash out hundreds of pounds on agency nurses to cover the absences.

One member of staff, who asked ...

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