NHS in good health north of the border

MANY readers condemn the SNP on the NHS, education and transport etc.

They obviously close their eyes as to how those same services are doing down south.

Take the NHS for example — thank heavens this organisation is devolved to Scotland.

If Westminster had control, junior doctors would have been on strike and health service staff wouldn’t have been paid their 1% pay increase in each of the last four years.

There are more people employed in NHS Scotland than at any time.

The performance of A&E departments in Scotland is better than in any of the other NHS services in the UK.

We have more GPs per patient than the rest of the UK, trainee nurses still get bursaries in Scotland and let’s not forget free prescriptions. The list goes on.

Scotland has been in control of NHS Scotland for 18 years. Westminster has had complete control of NHS England for more than 70 years.

What’s their excuse for making a complete mess of things?

Rod Selbie.

DOES the writer (T.D.) of the letter “Another fine SNP mess” not realise the mess in the health service is not only here but across the whole of the UK?

The SNP has built many new schools to replace the dilapidated ones our children had to go to.

They are not responsible for transport in this country as it is run by private companies.

I found it laughable to read the comment about them not being able to keep the Forth Road Bridge open.

The bridge was closed for essential repairs and then reopened to all but heavy traffic.

The SNP took a lot of criticism for the building of the Queensferry Crossing but it has turned out vto be a sensible thing as the Forth bridge is beginning to show its age.

As the old saying goes, some people can’t see the wood for the trees.

To those people, no matter what the SNP does it will be wrong. Dammed if they do and dammed if they don’t.

A. Easton.