SCOTLAND’S struggling health services cannot improve without tax increases for higher earners, the Health Secretary has said, as he claimed emergency departments will start to recover after winter.
His comments came as the convener of Holyrood’s Health Committee hit out at the Scottish Tories over their Budget criticism.
Gillian Martin said their response to “John Swinney’s penny-for-patient-care Budget measure proves yet again that they will always prioritise their ideological Unionism above adequately funding the NHS”.
