By Legerwood
What the Scottish Government has achieved with the Scottish NHS is more than mere mitigation. Just look at the number of new hospitals that have been built the length and breadth of Scotland and the upgrades to existing hospitals.
For example, new Community hospitals in Kirkwall, Aviemore, Broadford, Haddington to name but a few. They provide a better work environment and often increased facilities which mean better outcomes for patients. The new community hospital in Kirkwall won a silver medal in an international competition. Haddington Community Hospital which has only been open for a few years won a gold award for its out-patient endoscopy department and an award for its integration of art into the hospital.
Other new hospitals include Forth Valley Royal Hospital. A PFI hospital signed by Labour in 2007 but built under the SG. Recently its operating suite was extended from 14 to 16 operating theatres plus 2 extra wards to serve the new theatres.
Then there are the specialist hospitals such as QEUH in Glasgow and sick kids in Edinburgh.
There is a lot more to add but you get the picture. Modern facilities and equipment making a positive difference for staff and patients.
Talking-up Scotland 'Albatraz' 
Ah, but John Beattie will speak to ‘a consultant who wishes to remain anonymous’ at a dinner party who says colleagues have heard colleagues complying about how bad things are.
Alasdair Macdonald
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Important points to make.
Individual investments MAY gain credit within local communities but most voters in Scotland will have little or no awareness of the aggregate investment in the NHS Scotland estate and little or no awareness of the aggregate impact of this on Scotland.
And one could write a similar blog post on the Scottish Government’s investments in the renewal Scotland’s state schools’ estate. And anyone noticed the transformation of Scotland’s FE college estate?
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only issue I have with the FE/school rebuilds is having them on the same Campus – FE colleges have students from 16 up many of whom have issues and some are what can only be described as dodgy characters – they are now on the same campus as vulnerable first years – be interesting to see if drug abuse and general crime increase where those composite sites are built – I may be way off base but it is a genuine concerns and not one which I believe has been addressed
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And yet unionists on SM, from politicians to the public, do nothing but moan about the service. While I appreciate there are problems in the GP department – my own surgery is closing down in November – I really get annoyed by the likes of Jackie Baillie grandstanding in HR about how bad the SNHS is while she supports the privatisation of our precious NHS. More especially the bone she has to pick with the QE which, it would appear, is head and shoulders above many of those hospitals south of the border.
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The QEUH has been a target for the Unionists from the moment it was completed about 6 weeks early, if I remember correctly, and on budget. Since then they have been picking on each and every ‘fault’ and amplifying it.
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That certainly goes a way to explain the vitriol from Jackie Baillie.
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Unionist Health Boards decide policy
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