Will Kate Forbes scrap Sturgeon's National Care Service?

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.