MSP: Families face crisis in healthcare

Carson believes conditions getting worse every day

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Concerns MSP Finlay Carson

Families in Dumfries and Galloway are now facing a serious healthcare crisis that is worsening by the day, an MSP warned this week.

Finlay Carson fears the “greatest threat” to rural healthcare is not distance - but the chronic failure to recruit and retain the workforce needed to deliver care.

And the Galloway and West Dumfries MSP insists that this failure lies squarely at the door of the SNP Government who, unless they come up with a drastic rethink, are now approaching the point of no return.

Speaking in a members’ Holyrood debate that he initiated, Mr Carson argued: “Let me by absolutely clear, rural Scotland ~ particularly communities in Stranraer, the Rhins, and across Dumfries and Galloway ~ have been let down.

“Not by geography, but by government choices.

“Choices that have stripped away vital health and care services without ensuring replacements were ready.

“Let us look at what is happening in Wigtownshire right now. GP shortages are critical.