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Heart patients may be treated in England amid staffing issues

This is seamless crossborder co-operation at it’s best and a lesson for the rest of Europe. Whether Scots, English, Welsh or NI, all that’s relevant is that you are a patient in need of cardiac treatment and that you’re delivered to the appropriate care centre in a Germanmade ambulance. – Freewheel It’s pretty clear there should now only be one health service across Britain. It is absurd for Scotland to be isolated as it currently is. I wonder what else about our present Scottish NHS is weakened by the separation of health services? – Corrigenda Sturgeon has robbed the NHS of £1 billion. Cash wasted on Gaelic, Prestwick and other pet SNP projects. – oneworld72 Does this mean patients from England could have to wait for surgery because a bed has been taken by a Grampian patient? Any idea what the SNP in Westminster would say if the English NHS had to rely on SNHS in the same way? – Aalmangleye