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Bed blocking is crippling Scotland’s NHS – The Spectator

Letters to the press, 12/01/23: “If Nicola Sturgeon thinks her Health Secretary Humza Yousaf is doing a great job, I shudder to think what she considers failure. His record is abysmal. He is out of his depth, so much so that the First Minister did not allow him to speak at the briefing”

Why Nicola Sturgeon will survive to divide Scotland for another year – The Scotsman

Scotland’s largest health board pauses non-urgent procedures – STV News

NHS Scotland crisis: Public believe SNP are running public services poorly, poll suggests – The Scotsman

‘This could be the end of the National Health Service as we know it’ – STV News

Healthier life expectancy continues to fall in Scotland for men and women – Stathspey Herald

Elderly woman, 92, left on trolley in A&E ‘war zone’ for 30 hours – STV News

Letters to the press, 04/01/23: “Neither Ms Sturgeon nor the SNP is in charge of the country under the existing arrangements. It’s the Greens that are calling the shots these days, whether it’s the moves to restrict cars from cities, the delays improving death-trap roads through the North of Scotland, setting up impractical bottle deposit schemes or the postponement of the abolition of Air Passenger Duty”

Letters to the press, 29/12/22: “Nicola Sturgeon needs to step in, but perhaps having been a health secretary herself she is loathe to. The result is precisely what we are all experiencing right now: stasis. Something or someone has to change”