Scottish Parliament – Jan. 29, 2025 – 2

S6M-16252.2: As an amendment to motion S6M-16252 in the name of Jackie Baillie (Supporting Scotland’s Health and Social Care Workforce), insert at end “;

notes that the Scottish National Party administration has failed to deliver improvements to social care in Scotland, despite wasting nearly £30 million and years of civil servants’ time on its failed National Care Service, and calls on Neil Gray to resign as Cabinet Secretary for Health and Social Care, following his disastrous tenure in office."

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.