Watch: Christine Jardine in BBC Health debate “Let medical professionals do their job”

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Watch: Christine Jardine in BBC Health debate “Let medical professionals do their job”

By Caron Lindsay | Thu 14th April 2016 - 11:30 am

On Tuesday night, Aberdeenshire East candidate Christine Jardine took part in a BBC Scotland debate on health. This is one area in which the SNP has consistently failed. We are going to be 700 GPs short by the end of the decade, it’s becoming increasingly more difficult to get a GP appointment, there are no mental health beds for children north of Dundee, and there’s a LOT of Scotland north of Dundee and mental health care is even worse than it is south of the border. In addition to all of that, health professionals often find that top-down targets get in the way of them doing their job.

Watch Christine take on the SNP Health Minister on all these points. The Minister at one point suggested that criticising the SNP’s health policy was in some way talking the NHS down – their usual refuge when they know they are on the losing side of an argument.

Here are Christine’s highlights:

And here is the debate in full on iPlayer.

* Caron Lindsay is Editor of Liberal Democrat Voice and blogs at Caron's Musings. You can find her on Bluesky at caronmlindsay.bsky.social

Read more by Caron Lindsay or more about bbc scotland, christine jardine, Scotland or scottish parliament elections 2016.
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One Comment

Jim H 14th Apr '16 - 3:06pm

You’re really going to criticise someone else on their position on the health service? Really?

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