Private Firms 'Can Help The NHS'

Private companies do - and should continue to - work alongside the NHS to support it.

Party leader and Fife MSP Willie Rennie has made the claim amidst concerns that the Scottish Government is under-performing on health, with missed waiting time targets and GP shortages.

The Cannons Surgery in Methil had made various attempts to recruit two GP Principles without any success resulting in one GP single-handedly covering the surgery with support from a Nurse Practitioner.
 
As a result the decision was taken that The Cannons Surgery would resign from its Section 17C GMS contract in November when NHS Fife will take over the running of the practice.
 
Alongside the Methil surgery there have been unsuccessful attempts to recruit GPs in Kennoway, Lochore and Dunfermline, with many practices in Fife recording difficulties in securing locum cover.

Weekly A&E waiting times show a further decline in the number of patients being treated with the SNP Government’s four hour target.

Six health boards failed to meet the interim 95 percent target.

Mr Rennie's telling Kingdom FM News of his worries: