Cole-Hamilton responds to National Care Service being delayed

Responding to reports that the National Care Service will be delayed, Scottish Liberal Democrat leader and health spokesperson Alex Cole-Hamilton MSP said:

“The Scottish Liberal Democrats are the only party to have opposed the National Care Service since day one. A halt was essential. Next it needs to be scrapped, not salvaged.

“A ministerial takeover and billion-pound bureaucracy would fail to solve the core problems in social care. The money must be moved instead to frontline services and staff who are firefighting on every shift.”