A Caring Nation – Recovering, Remobilising and Renewing Health and Social Care in Scotland - Amendment
Submitted by:
Alex Cole-Hamilton,
Edinburgh Western, Scottish Liberal Democrats.
Date lodged:
Monday, 13 September 2021
Motion reference: S6M-01190.4
Current status:Taken in the Chamber on Tuesday, 14 September 2021
As an amendment to motion S6M-01190 in the name of Humza Yousaf (A Caring Nation – Recovering, Remobilising and Renewing Health and Social Care in Scotland), leave out from "welcomes" to end and insert "notes that the NHS is under intense pressure because ministerial mistakes in workforce planning since 2007 contributed to the failure to meet key waiting times targets for years pre-pandemic; believes that the NHS Recovery Plan should be strengthened with a trajectory for meeting those targets to give new hope to overworked staff and patients waiting; further believes that there should be new national entitlements to guarantee quality of care for service users, with the funding to match, and new national fair work standards for staff to improve pay, conditions and career progression; believes, however, that Scottish Government proposals for a centralised ministerial takeover of social care will distract and detract from those ambitions; recalls the mistakes of previous centralisations conducted by the Scottish Government, and calls for the additional proposals contained in the Scottish Government consultation to use centralisation to seize control of other services, including children and young people, community justice and social work, described as an attack on local government, to also be withdrawn."
Vote
Result54 for, 66 against, 0 abstained, 9 did not voteVote Defeated