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 this Government will be its lack of delivery. If Neil Gray wants me to come up with ideas, he should tell John Swinney to call the election now and I will do the job for him.

I am not holding my breath over the promise of using an NHS app that has been used by NHS England since 2018 and that, although it was developed by a Glasgow headquartered company, has been ignored by the SNP. The SNP made a manifesto commitment to have an all-Scotland app, but we are to have a pilot in NHS Lanarkshire alone. That commitment has been broken but, cynically, it is now being reannounced.

The cabinet secretary rightly talks about prevention, but for the past 18 years the SNP Government has funded crisis rather than prevention. Audit Scotland has identified cuts of £560 million in social care—