Scotsman Bulletin Tuesday 10 June

The Scotsman

10/06/2025

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00:00hello welcome to the Scotsman's daily video bulletin for this Tuesday my name is Dale

00:16Miller I'm deputy editor of the Scotsman and I'm joined by our investigations correspondent

00:21Martin McLaughlin Martin we're here to talk about the front page of today's Scotsman because it

00:27features an exclusive story from yourself it's a letter signed by a number of chief health medics

00:34and the court calling for services to be effectively reimagined an open letter plea

00:40about the need for urgent and critical reform Martin just on this particular letter who signed

00:49it and above and beyond the headline what were they specifically asking for yeah Dale this is

00:56a open letter that's been signed by 13 medical professionals and executives ranging from

01:04emergency physicians consultants chief executives of kind of major health health charities people

01:10involved in social care and they've all come under the banner of enlighten which is a think tank which

01:17is probably best known by its former name reform Scotland but essentially they have written an open

01:24letter and designed to spark a bit of debate calling for Scotland's not just the NHS but the wider health

01:32and social care system to be reimagined and really they're trying to shift the narrative away from any

01:39kind of specific issues such as you know waiting times or GP access to the need for a longer term

01:46conversation about how we how we fix some of the systemic and entrenched problems facing and the

01:54health and social care system in Scotland so one of their kind of fundamental asks is to get politicians

02:01around the table with other stakeholders and kind of try and commit to a cross party conversation which

02:09looks at long term planning which goes beyond the traditional Holyrood electoral cycle so I think the

02:17the principle of it is something I'm sure everyone would agree with you know that the systemic problems across the

02:23NHS are a regular feature in the Scotsman's reporting and clearly there is a a graver need for a kind of longer term shift

02:32and there will be however a degree of misgivings about that you know that the idea of stakeholders getting around the table

02:40and we shouldn't forget uh enlighten as a think tank that's financed by private companies and private individuals so

02:48anyone with uh misgivings about the slow creep of privatization in the NHS you know may be skeptical about this uh intervention

02:58and Martin um perhaps no coincidence that this has been released on the day that the what was the care bill

03:05is being uh debated um in the Scottish Parliament now a heavily watered down bill this was meant to be linked

03:13to the national care service there'd been um some from memory 30 million pounds uh poured into basically

03:21setting up the service and then uh support was gradually poured by unions and other parties because

03:27it wasn't deemed to achieve what was needed and it was going to cost too much money as well

03:31but also a day before Rachel Reeves's spending review when we're expecting there may be some commitments

03:38announcements that lead to Holyrood getting more money what do they do with that money um i mean

03:44there's some some bigger questions and discussions down here isn't it yeah absolutely um and you know when

03:50MSPs vote on the the care reform Scotland bill that the final stage of that legislation later today

03:56um there will be a huge number of people um paying a close attention to it not least you know the

04:01hundreds of thousands of unpaid carers across Scotland um one of the big elements of that

04:06legislation is the the possibility of a new legal right for unpaid carers to receive breaks which would

04:14make a huge difference to them but there's no shying away from it this bill is watered down compared to

04:19what was proposed by Nicola Sturgeon nearly five years ago you know the national care service was

04:26arguably one of the the biggest policy pledges of post-evolutionary Scotland but you know that is not

04:33going to happen anytime soon and so you know the kind of interventions that we've seen today from

04:39enlighten and the medical professionals will only continue and there's there's very much a sense that

04:44you know the sticking plaster approach cannot continue uh you can read the exclusive from

04:51martin at scotsman.com if you can't find any of this the story or any of our health or politics

04:58coverage you'll find tabs for them in the navigation bar available off the home page uh we've obviously

05:04going to have more in the lead up to the spending review uh which will be tomorrow you can read the

05:10piece from alex brown on um how the spending review could have implications for the finances here in

05:17scotland and what decisions could directly affect uh the situation here north of the border um please

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05:29thanks to you marvel thanks to everyone

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