Scottish Parliament – Jan. 29, 2025 – 1

S6M-16252.1: As an amendment to motion S6M-16252 in the name of Jackie Baillie (Supporting Scotland’s Health and Social Care Workforce), leave out from "there is a continuing crisis" to end and insert "current high wait times mean that too many are waiting too long for treatment;

thanks hardworking NHS and social care staff who provide extraordinary care across the country;

recognises that there are crises facing too many parts of the NHS;

notes investment of over £11 billion in the NHS workforce and an estimated £950 million to ensure that adult social care workers, including those in the third and private sectors, are paid at least the real Living Wage;

recognises that the biggest threat to the health and social care workforce comes from the UK Government's decision to increase employer national insurance contributions, and demands that the UK Labour administration reimburse the Scottish Government in full;

supports the calls for the publication of a medium-term approach to health and social care reform, including workforce planning, before the Parliament's 2025 summer recess, and believes that the aim of the medium-term reforms must be to ensure that everyone can access the treatment and care that they require, in the right place, at the right time."

Original motion(S6M-16252): That the Parliament deeply regrets that there is a continuing crisis in both the NHS and social care;

recognises that staff are the backbone of the NHS and that the Scottish Government has failed to effectively workforce plan;

understands that the consequences of this failure are that patients are suffering from poorer outcomes, hard-working staff are experiencing moral injury, and NHS graduates are not being employed, and calls on the Scottish Government to urgently bring forward a 10-year health and social care workforce plan that meets the needs of the people of Scotland.