Independent review of Caithness maternity services won in Parliament
The Scottish Government has today agreed to back a Scottish Liberal Democrat amendment in Holyrood calling for an independent review of maternity services in Caithness.
All the latest news from the Highland Liberal Democrats.
The Scottish Government has today agreed to back a Scottish Liberal Democrat amendment in Holyrood calling for an independent review of maternity services in Caithness.
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.
Responding to the Scottish Government’s plans to extend the number of GP walk-in centres despite stubbornly low attendance rates among those that are already up and running, Scottish Liberal Democrat health spokesperson Adam Harley MSP said:
Scottish Liberal Democrat leader Alex Cole-Hamilton MSP and party environmental spokesperson Sanne Dijkstra-Downie MSP have today written to the First Minister, pressing him for a justification of the bonuses paid to Scottish Water executives amid huge se
Following a UK Government review into deaths among young people with experience of the care system in England, Scottish Liberal Democrat children spokesperson Duncan Dunlop MSP highlighted that the scale of the tragedy is “no different” in Scotland.
Responding to a 7% increase in recorded crime in the first six months of 2026 compared to the same period the previous year, including sexual crimes rising by 9%, crimes of dishonesty by 10% and crimes of shoplifting by 20%, Scottish Liberal Democrat just
Responding to the Scottish Fiscal Commission's fiscal update showing a weakening economic outlook, next year's budget being hit by a £720m income tax reconciliation, and the public sector workforce growing despite ministers promising they'd shrink it
Scottish Liberal Democrat health spokesperson Adam Harley MSP has called on the SNP government to “change course" as new figures revealed that there are over 770,000 waits for treatment across the NHS, including thousands of waits lasting more than a year
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