Cole-Hamilton: SNP have failed our NHS for eighteen years

Responding to the publication of the Scottish Government’s NHS Operational Improvement Plan, Scottish Liberal Democrat leader Alex Cole-Hamilton MSP said:

“Patients and staff have been badly let down by this SNP Government for almost two decades. Waiting lists are through the roof, staff feel completely abandoned and it will be impossible to fix the NHS without fixing the broken care system.

“In this year’s budget, Scottish Lib Dems secured more money for GPs, for dentists, for social care and for new healthcare facilities including the long overdue replacements for the Belford in Fort William and Edinburgh’s Eye Hospital. Now it’s down to the Scottish Government to deliver.

“The SNP have been in power too long. What the NHS and social care really need is a change of government.”