Scottish Liberal Democrat leader Alex Cole-Hamilton MSP has today described the Auditor General’s annual report on the NHS as “a damning verdict of Humza Yousaf’s time as Health Secretary”, after it concluded that the government’s NHS Recovery Plan lacks detailed actions and that key recruitment targets are set to be missed.
In particular, the report indicated that:
Alex Cole-Hamilton said:
“Today’s report makes for a damning verdict of the failing NHS Recovery Plan and Humza Yousaf’s time as Health Secretary.
“Record waiting times are getting worse and worse, every corner of the health service is in trouble and now we learn that the staff needed to ease the pressure aren’t going to arrive.
“People will want to know what Humza Yousaf would do differently, therefore, as First Minister. Everyone waiting in pain has been taken for granted. They deserve better than the SNP obsessing over reckless schemes for separation, instead of what really matters, like our NHS.
“The Scottish Liberal Democrat's plan would deliver new hope for health through a burnout prevention strategy, reversing cuts to the mental health budget and the immediate introduction of new fair work measures across social care.”