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“One of Scotland’s top surgeons has warned of the creeping privatisation of the NHS as he claimed a year-round bed crisis means health boards are no longer able to treat patients in their local hospitals” The concerns of the president of the British Orthopaedic Association sparked a lively online debate: Shortage of beds (reduction of total numbers) was an unintended consequence of PFI. – Graham Leiper, Aberdeen There are just too many concerns about the NHS in Scotland being raised by too many people for Ms Sturgeon and her SNP cronies to continue burying their heads in the sand and pretending that all is well with the NHS in Scotland. – John MacIntyre, OBE, Woking What you are experiencing at present is the total failure of all political parties to build on the improvements that Clement Attlee introduced into the environment. The Labour party, the Conservatives and their hangers on are very much the main instigators of the present situation the UK finds itself. – Peter Dale Smith, Sheffield The SNP have been in power for some 7 years, how long before they accept liability for the state of the Scottish Health Service? – Terry Kelly, Renfrewshire The process - and it is a planned process - of privatisation and commercialisation in the English NHS is nowhere and in no way mirrored in Scotland – Prof Nigel R S Mace Our local medical practice says it cannot source the necessary travel innoculations, thus forcing us to go private where, for a bill of £210, we found all the jabs we needed on the spot. Sounds like creeping privatisation to us. – Tom Flinn, Dunbar