Heavy handed
Holyrood’s Health & Sport Committee rightly raises concerns about the lack of information available to assess the over £8 billion budget of the new Integration Authorities charged with ensuring health and social care are delivered effectively (your report, 13 November).
This is another example of the SNP’S lack of attention to detail as they make grand pronouncements – in this case about establishing a fully integrated approach to health and social care – but then fail to follow through with the necessary systems to ensure proper objectives are set and progress closely monitored.
Instead the SNP leadership are busy moving on to stirring up the next cause for grievance, and looking for more opportunities 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 heavy handed and misjudged interventions.