Communities across Lanarkshire and Central Scotland were promised a new Monklands Hospital before the election. Now, after votes have been cast, they are being told that the project is too expensive and must be sent back to the drawing board.
Commenting on the delay of the Monklands Hospital project.
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Your government cannot claim that the NHS is its priority while patients are told to wait and prisoners are given certainty.
Central Scotland deserves better than broken promises, delay and managed decline. The people of Lanarkshire deserve the hospital they were promised.
Labour promised £150 million to help meet that pressure, but families and schools are still waiting to see it.
Nationalist ministers must give councils the resources to deliver essential local services and strengthen community cohesion before this turns into a crisis.
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