The drug, abiraterone, has been available in Scotland and Wales for two years for high-risk patients whose cancer has not yet spread, but not in England and Northern Ireland.

Liz S

Jackie Baillie recent tweets:

“A warm welcome from party members in Stornoway. If you want improved public services in our rural and island communities, we need a new direction with @scottishlabour“

“Thought-provoking conversation with the local community in Barra who are struggling to access healthcare. Next stop, Eriskay”.

“The SNP’s stealth cuts have created a sinkhole under social care. It’s time for a new direction”

“Our heroic ambulance workers are being failed. Scottish Labour will make fixing the NHS our number one priority”

Then in response to a Daily Record story on “Scots children with Muscular Dystrophy denied free new life saving drug” Baillie tweets

“This decision is wrong. These young people should get this new help now”

But wait there is news relating to the NHS, the UK and Brexit. (and also another story too relating to a life extending cancer drug being denied in NHS England).

“NHS cancer patients denied life-saving drugs due to Brexit costs”

“Brits found to have ‘lost out’ while the rest of Europe benefits from a golden age of research and treatments”

Now which party is supporting Brexit, is continuing to implement it as a policy for their UK and is currently the new and existing UK government ?

That would be Jackie Baillie’s party the Labour party.

The Guardian newspaper has an article that states “Brexit has damaged the practical ability of Doctors to offer NHS patients life saving new drugs via international clinical trials”.

On March 2025 the BBC website also had this story as an article

“Men denied life-extending prostate cancer drug”

“A cancer charity has said it is “angry and frustrated” that ministers and health officials have not approved the provision of a life-extending prostate cancer drug through the NHS in England”.

NHS in England ?

That would be under Jackie Baillie’s party once again as Labour UK are now the Labour UK government and so they are in charge of NHS England.

But there is more to this story…….

“The drug, abiraterone, has been available in Scotland and Wales for two years for high-risk patients whose cancer has not yet spread, but not in England and Northern Ireland”

You will not see Jackie Baillie tweet about either the Brexit related negative consequences for NHS life saving drugs that then impacts the whole UK and where her own party, Labour UK, need to take the blame for this as they are the new and the latest Brexit supporting UK government.

Nor indeed will Jackie Baillie tweet about the story relating to a Cancer Charity’s “anger and frustration” that “(Labour UK government) ministers and health officials have not approved the provision of a life-extending prostate cancer drug through the NHS in England” (but it has, as a drug, been available in Scotland for two years).

Jackie Baillie once again still “Playing politics” while her Labour UK party is continuing to implement Brexit and so they are playing with people’s lives via the NHS.

I have highlighted words above in bold where I see Jackie Baillie is being once again a political hypocrite, as she tries to place all of the UK’s #NHSBAD onto the SNP as the Scottish government , while reality and facts expose her Labour UK party as the new UK Brexit government are no ‘angels’ when it comes to the NHS.

Liz S