Cole-Hamilton criticises halt to NHS building projects

Responding to the news that at least a dozen NHS construction projects across Scotland have been delayed or paused for up to two years as a result of budget pressures, Scottish Liberal Democrat leader Alex Cole-Hamilton said:

"From a new cancer centre and eye hospital in Edinburgh to the replacement hospital in Fort William, and the maternity ward at Raigmore Hospital in Inverness, up and down the country, the SNP are breaking their promises to the people of Scotland.

"So many Scots are waiting in pain for treatment that is now further away than ever.

"It is so shortsighted because delays to treatment can turn a small problem into a huge one.

"It doesn't matter which SNP MSP is currently health secretary. The nationalists are bad for your health."