Cole-Hamilton: Delayed NHS app is another SNP saga

Responding to the news that the Scottish Government’s much-delayed NHS and social care app will be launched next year, three years after it was initially due to be launched, with a full rollout not due until 2030, Scottish Liberal Democrat leader Alex Cole-Hamilton MSP said:

“It’s been an absolute saga for the SNP to bring forward this app. It won’t be until the end of the decade that it’s fully rolled out.

“Under the SNP, Scotland is falling behind. Patients in England have been able to book appointments, order prescriptions and see their medical records on an equivalent app since 2019.

“We need a government that can make serious and well-thought-out investment in our health service, not one that scrambles around just to look good before an election.”