Responding to the news Dr Peter Bennie, Chair of the British Medical Association in Scotland, will be leaving frontline medicine, Scottish Liberal Democrat health spokesperson Alex Cole-Hamilton MSP said:

“Dr Bennie has shone light on some of the harsh realities of an underfunded NHS and the bleak challenges health professionals face in our NHS day-in day-out. His honesty and candour has been truly valuable.

“The new health secretary has a mountain to climb to get the NHS fit for purpose and to once again make it fair and appealing to those who work there.”