No attention to the details

Sir, – Holyrood’s Health and Sport Committee has rightly raised concerns about the lack of information available to assess the £8 billion budget of the new Integration Authorities charged with ensuring delivery of health and social care.

The committee has warned of signs of ‘bureaucracy’ and a ‘blame culture’, with different agencies not taking proper ownership of areas under their control.

This is another example of the SNP’S lack of attention to detail as they make grand pronouncements – in this case about a fully integrated approach to health and social care – but then fail to follow through with the necessary systems.

Instead, the SNP leadership are busy moving on to stirring up the next cause for grievance, to claim the moral high ground.

Meanwhile, issues of poor performance or lack of effective oversight continue to pile up across all sectors of public services that have suffered the SNP’S often heavyhanded and misjudged interventions.

Keith Howell. White Moss,

West Linton.