Gender-identity Healthcare for Young People | Scottish Parliament debates
I thank the minister for advance sight of her statement, although I have to register my disappointment at its lack of substance. The Cass report is a four-year-long piece of work that is evidence based and informed by expert clinicians and those with lived experience, so it deserves to be treated seriously. However, this statement […]
National Health Service (Workforce Data) | First Minister’s Question Time | Scottish Parliament debates
This morning, we learned from the British Medical Association Scotland that more than 600 consultant vacancies are missing from Scottish Government official statistics. Clinicians have repeatedly warned of the workforce crisis in the national health service, but ministers have been quick to say that there is nothing to see here. Now we learn that the […]
Scotch Whisky Industry | Scottish Parliament debates
I must start by offering an apology to the chamber, the Presiding Officer and the minister, as I need to leave before the conclusion of the debate. I have, of course, secured the Presiding Officer’s permission to do so. I thank Ivan McKee for securing this members’ business debate on Scotland’s iconic Scotch whisky industry […]
Business Motions | Scottish Parliament debates
Oh. I am sorry—I did not see the minister. I correct what I said. I am delighted to see the minister here, so that she can confirm what I am about to say. She and the CMO have been backwards and forwards to Greater Glasgow and Clyde NHS Board, but no one can decide what […]
Business Motions | Scottish Parliament debates
I genuinely hope that they do not. I would like to see the Cass review being implemented in full. It is a considered evidence-based report, and ignoring it will let down staff and a generation of young people and their families. Making a statement to Parliament on the report is the very least that we […]
Business Motions | Scottish Parliament debates
I wish to speak against the business motion. I agree with many of the comments from Meghan Gallacher, but standing orders prevent me from speaking directly to the amendment. However, I wish to express disappointment that there is not a statement on the Cass review in the business for next week. The report from Dr […]
Infrastructure Investment Plan | Portfolio Question Time | Scottish Parliament debates
Unfortunately, the plan—when it is published—may make rather thin reading, as almost all capital projects in health have been cancelled. I want to focus also on national treatment centres and cancelled projects in Ayrshire and Arran, Lanarkshire, Lothian, Grampian and Tayside, because they were central to the Government’s plans to tackle long waiting lists. What […]
