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Swinney defiant as doctors call opposition to cuts ‘naive’

Finance Secretary John Swinney is under growing pressure to include the NHS in budget cuts after even the medical profession said it was “naive” to think health could be exempt.

 

BMA Scotland said the NHS faced a “real-terms reduction in budgets” and called for a more honest debate about what the NHS “can and cannot deliver in the difficult times ahead”.