Kate Forbes has finally managed to shake off questions about equal marriage. The SNP leadership contender has been busy instead talking about Scotland’s crumbling health service – and how she’d fix it. It’s looking like Forbes, if successful, will scrap the Sturgeon-Yousaf National Care Service, back an independent inquiry into Scotland’s healthcare system and enter into considerations about the long-term future of the NHS. Will any of this help turn around a failing health service?
Forbes said today during her speech at Reform Scotland’s event, a health service inquiry would be an ‘excellent idea’. She said it would look at the ‘short, the medium and the long-term future of the NHS’ and also address difficult working conditions faced by frontline healthcare workers, yet she made clear that any shake-up would not entail privatisation.
‘I wouldn’t in any way swerve on this: [it is] an absolute foundation stone that the NHS continues to be free at the point of need.
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