All the latest news from the Highland Liberal Democrats.
Almost 40,000 days of staff time for nurses and midwives have been lost across NHS Highland over the last five years due to a growing mental health crisis, the Highland Liberal Democrats have said.
The Scottish Government is being urged to urgently step in to find a replacement for lifeline services from Wick airport in response to Eastern Airways facing administration.
Angus MacDonald, MP for Inverness, Skye and West Ross-shire, and Kate Forbes, MSP for Skye, Lochaber and Badenoch, are co-hosting a conference on adult social care in Fort William on Friday 24th October.
The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) is being urged to reconsider and broaden its current ‘Access to Cash’ policy to include an ‘Access to Banks’ provision following the recent mass closure of local bank branches across the UK.
The Highland Liberal Democrats have called for a new law to strengthen rural communities, accusing the SNP government of “a broken relationship with rural Scotland” that has left many rural areas forgotten and left behind.
Far North Liberal Democrats Jamie Stone and David Green have written to the Secretary of State for Transport to raise concerns regarding the backlog of practical driving tests in the Highlands.
Responding to new figures showing the worst May at A&E on record, with only 67.7% of people attending A&E seen within the 4-hour target in May, while 16,612 people waited over 8 hours and 6,978 waited over 12 hours, Scottish Liberal Democrat health spokes
Responding to new figures showing that there were 1,925 people stuck in hospital last month due to their discharge being delayed, Scottish Liberal Democrat health spokesperson Adam Harley MSP said:
Scottish Liberal Democrat leader Alex Cole-Hamilton and party justice spokesperson Yi-pei Chou Turvey have written to First Minister John Swinney to ask when the Scottish Government will finally implement domestic abuse protections.
North East Scotland Liberal Democrat MSP Yi-Pei Chou Turvey has today received the rising star award from the European Liberal Forum at the 50th anniversary congress of the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe Party in Vienna.
Scottish Liberal Democrat education spokesperson Duncan Dunlop MSP has today accused the SNP of making “a pig’s ear” of teacher planning, as new figures revealed that the government are falling significantly short of their targets for training teachers in
Orkney and Shetland MP Alistair Carmichael has today led a debate in Parliament on changes to the remuneration of coastguard volunteers in which he called for the changes to be paused and demanded that any changes respect the contribution and service give
Liberal Democrats have passed bold new policy to put public health at the heart of gambling regulation. These reforms would save lives, raise hundreds of millions for NHS treatment, and finally hold the industry to account.
Until the Government treats this crisis with the urgency and seriousness it demands, nothing will change and the vulnerable people caught in the system will continue to suffer.
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