Get the stories that matter to you sent straight to your inbox with our daily newsletter.Calls have been made for more contact tracers to be recruited in Lanarkshire.According to the latest Scottish Government statistics, there are just 31 contact tracers in the region – less than every mainland health board except NHS Highland and NHS Dumfries and Galloway.NHS Lanarkshire is the third-biggest health board in Scotland behind NHS Lothian and NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde, which have three and six times the number of tracers respectively.Labour’s shadow health minister Monica Lennon has now urged the government to bring in more in a bid to reach its own target.There are 874 contact tracers in Scotland - 1126 less than the Scottish.
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