Cole-Hamilton: National Care Service needs scrapped, not salvaged

28 Feb 2023
Alex Cole-Hamilton MSP

Responding to Kate Forbes’ comments during a Reform Scotland Q&A, where she indicated that centralisation won’t solve the problems in social care and that we need to focus on creating national standards and removing postcode lotteries, Scottish Liberal Democrat leader and health spokesperson Alex Cole-Hamilton MSP said:  

"Given the volume of organisations, experts and even Parliamentary committees lining up to criticise the National Care Service, it is little wonder that Kate Forbes is speaking out against this doomed project.

"Scottish Liberal Democrats have repeatedly called for this ministerial takeover to be ditched. It would do nothing except create a billion-pound bureaucracy and starve local communities of control. The legislation needs to be scrapped, not salvaged.

"The money being devoted to this centralisation of social care would be far better spent on frontline services and staff who are firefighting on every shift."

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