Our national health service is on its knees. There are thousands of vacancies for doctors and nurses, and yet we are turning them away as posts lie unfilled or, even worse, are cut.

When 860,000 Scots are on a waiting list for tests or treatment, delayed discharge remains stubbornly high, the number of general practitioners is reducing instead of increasing, and there are shortages in almost every area of the NHS—from nurses to allied health professionals—the fact that we are training people to end up unemployed is, frankly, a disgrace.