JOHN Swinney has defended the use of private firms in the Scottish NHS – despite attacking Labour with claims their rivals would privatise the…
leader said it was a “question of scale” between the number of firms used by the NHS in Scotland versus England.
He told The Scottish Sun: “In some cases, what gets defined as private sector activity in Scotland will be the use of agency staff, for example, who are filling vacancies. “But, secondly there’s the agenda. You won’t get me arguing for greater involvement of the private sector in the NHS, Wes Streeting is arguing for that and he’s proposing that, and that’s the difference.”
“I am concerned that Labour are on course, if he’s going to do it more than Blair, he’s going to expand all of that and that will ultimately have an effect on the funding that’s available for the NHS in Scotland, and that is a significant worry.”We know there are thousands of National readers who want to debate, argue and go back and forth in the comments section of our stories. We’ve got the most informed readers in Scotland, asking each other the big questions about the future of our country.
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