Angela Constance: “This Government will deliver a new Monklands Hospital. That commitment has not changed, and it will not change.”

The measure of our preparedness is not whether pressures arise, it is how effectively we respond to those pressures.

The bigger issue is around reducing avoidable hospital admissions.

The status quo with delayed discharge must end.

Scotland is home to many highly skilled internationally qualified doctors who fled conflict and persecution, and who want nothing more than to use their skills to help others,”