It is time to ask a few searching questions about the political oversight of the Scottish healthcare system.
In the recent past there has been the major furore over the planned closure of A&E services at Ayr and Monklands. These were cancelled by the incoming SNP administration, which then set up an independent review which concluded that, in the case of Ayrshire and Arran, the board had misled the public during the consultation period, had been selective in their use of statistics and did not have patient care and safety as their prime concern.
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