Health board safety boost

AN OVERWHELMING number of NHS Lothian workers think the organisation has a good or excellent "culture of safety".

Staff were asked in a survey what they thought of the health board's approach to health and safety.

In a boost to estate management, only eight per cent thought it was poor.

The survey asked staff their views on the safety in both hospitals and across wider sites in general.

It is an issue high up the health board's agenda after a pensioner was knocked over and killed at the Western General hospital last year.