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Scottish GPs crisis and whitewash of the vaginal mesh scandal show time’s up for Shona Robison

FOLLOWING the scandal of charitable donations being used to bail out crisis-hit health board NHS Tayside, Scottish Labour leader Richard Leonard called for the resignation of Shona Robison, Scotland’s beleaguered Health Secretary. Lib Dem leader Willie Rennie then joined the call.
These calls have sounded as the problems in Scotland’s health and social care system rapidly mount up.
Across Scotland there is a GP crisis. From Shetland to Dumfries and all stops in between, communities are seeing their local GP practices buckling under the pressure of increased demand, with fewer doctors to cover this growing need.
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