Crisis-hit NHS needs urgent plan of action

Is there anyone in scotland who still doubts that the NHs is in crisis? staff see it for themselves on the front line every day.

Patients languishing on waiting lists or trying to lay their hands on the holy grail that is a face-to-face GP appointment will attest to how bad things are. Even health board bosses, who try to put a brave corporate face on the situation, know how to read a spreadsheet.

The latest figures confirm the grim truth of the matter. Hundreds of thousands of operations have been lost to the pandemic while more than 600,000 patients are still waiting for treatment.

Across the NHs, routine procedures are cancelled as exhausted staff try to deal with an influx of patients during yet another spike in the number of Covid patients. NHs Highland warns of ‘unprecedented pressures’ caused by Covid infection rates and staff being forced to self-isolate. The sNP’s promised £1billion plan to get the NHs back on its feet looks more inadequate by the day.

There are a stubborn few who remain to be convinced of the problem and all are to be found working in the scottish Government’s headquarters at st Andrew’s House. The degree of denial is lamentable and the ambitions of ministers’ NHs recovery plan risible.

someone has to take charge and get a grip of the problem.

The public must have confidence in whoever is running scotland’s NHs.