Satisfaction with local health services plummets to record low

Scottish Liberal Democrat leader Alex Cole-Hamilton MSP has today said that “the SNP are terrible for your health” as new figures show that satisfaction with the quality of local health services has plummeted over the last decade.

The Scottish Household Survey 2024 found that across Scotland:

• Satisfaction with the quality of local health services has fallen from 83% in 2015 to 61% in 2024.
• This is also the worst satisfaction with local health services recorded since the SNP came to power. 
• Less than half of people were satisfied with local health services in North Lanarkshire (47%), while in South Lanarkshire and Aberdeenshire just 51% of people were satisfied.

Alex Cole-Hamilton MSP said:

“This is yet more proof that the SNP are terrible for your health.

“For the past eighteen years, they have run local health services into the ground. When I’m out speaking to people across the country, they tell me how they are struggling to get the healthcare they need like never before, all while staff are run off their feet.

“Scotland deserves better, which is why my party have a realistic plan to ensure everyone gets the healthcare they need when they need it, from GPs to dentists to mental health professionals.

“At next May’s election, no matter where you are in the country, everyone has a chance to end the SNP’s colossal mismanagement of our NHS by backing the Scottish Liberal Democrats on their second, peach-coloured ballot paper.”