Nearly 2,000 people stuck in hospital

Responding to new Public Health Scotland figures showing 1,925 people were stuck in hospital at the March census due to their discharge being delayed, Scottish Liberal Democrat leader Alex Cole-Hamilton MSP said:

“It's unacceptable that a lack of care at home or in the community is keeping so many people stuck in hospital.

“Staff and services have been failed by a government that never invests in them, that chooses to waste four years and £30 million on a top-down takeover of social care instead.

“The SNP have spent the last eighteen years proving they can’t deliver. That’s why we need a change of government.”