Care worker shortage leaves patient in hospital for 400 days

She says many other patients in the region have suffered a similar plight.

Iain Ramage

A shortage of care workers in Moray has left a retired widow unable to leave hospital for 400 days.

Anne Williamson says she has been left in limbo, staring at the walls in frustration, desperate to return home.

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