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.
Following a series of new statistics revealing the worst A&E wait times for September on record, sky-high delayed discharges and thousands of cancelled operations, Scottish Liberal Democrat leader Alex Cole-Hamilton MSP has today said that the SNP are bad
On Tuesday, MSPs on the Health, Social Care and Sport Committee will kick off their scrutiny of Liam McArthur MSP’s Assisted Dying for Terminally Ill Adults (Scotland) Bill.
Responding to the story in The Daily Record that there has been a 20% rise in violence from school pupils over the past year, with some councils recording twice as many incidents as the previous year and support staff now being forced to wear protective c
Scottish Liberal Democrat leader Alex Cole-Hamilton has today said that John Swinney is scared of facing questions from school kids as the First Minister prepares to skip a Royal Society of Edinburgh event in Dumfries.
Scottish Liberal Democrat MSP Beatrice Wishart has today called for the Scottish Transport Secretary to deliver an immediate statement to Parliament setting out what actions the government is taking to respond to the collapse of Eastern Airways.
Scottish Liberal Democrat Willie Rennie MSP has today said that the SNP are “anything but efficient” as he revealed that the costs to run their flagship home energy scheme are six times higher than the equivalent scheme in England and Wales, despite the n
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