Health and Social Care | Scottish Parliament debates
There was.
Health and Social Care | Scottish Parliament debates
—coming from a Government that is running out of ideas and fast running out of time.
Health and Social Care | Scottish Parliament debates
I am trying to.
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—with announcements of measures that will never deliver—
Health and Social Care | Scottish Parliament debates
Today’s statement amounts to little more than gaslighting the people of Scotland—
Health and Social Care | Scottish Parliament debates
Of course. In this year alone, services are being cut to the bone—
Health and Social Care | Scottish Parliament debates
This is simply tinkering around the edges. The Scottish National Party Government’s plan would simply merge two special boards rather than implement effective reform. It amounts to gesture politics that will not create an NHS in which systems work together and money follows the patient. Whatever the new board might be called, the hallmark of […]
National Health Service (Ambulance Turnaround Times) | Topical Question Time | Scottish Parliament debates
The cabinet secretary should tell that to the almost 2,000 people who are stuck in a hospital due to delayed discharge. Not only are ambulances unable to attend calls, doctors cannot get jobs, despite record-high waiting lists for treatment, and the Royal College of Psychiatrists is reporting a £240 million shortfall in the face of […]
National Health Service (Ambulance Turnaround Times) | Topical Question Time | Scottish Parliament debates
The cabinet secretary will agree that, although our paramedics do a wonderful job, they simply cannot cope with the scale of the challenge. This is the fifth recovery plan that has been published in the past four years, and none of them has worked so far. For example, in Aberdeen, an ambulance waited for more […]
National Health Service (Ambulance Turnaround Times) | Topical Question Time | Scottish Parliament debates
To ask the Scottish Government what action is being taken to reduce ambulance turnaround times at hospitals, in light of figures showing that so far in 2025 more than half of conveyances recorded a turnaround time of longer than 45 minutes. (S6T-02591)