More than 1,900 stuck in hospital

Responding to new Public Health Scotland figures which show 1,914 people were suck in hospital in February due to their discharge being delayed, up 3% from the previous month and representing the second highest monthly delayed discharges on record, Scottish Liberal Democrat leader Alex Cole-Hamilton MSP said:

“Far from eradicating discharges, this SNP government is watching them soar to alarming levels. People should never have to wait weeks or months in hospital for a care home place or help to return home.

“The SNP’s ill-fated centralisation of social care will do nothing to ease pressures. This billion-pound bureaucracy must be scrapped, not salvaged.

“Scottish Liberal Democrats would devote that money to frontline services and staff instead, driving up the quality of care and rewarding staff with better pay and conditions.”