Leading the way: Under Labour, Scotland led the UK in banning smoking in enclosed public places.
Turning the clock back: In government, the SNP have ended Labour’s historic growth in health spending. Rural Health boards are receiving a lesser share of the budget. Student nurses are facing a tax hike thanks to the SNP’s proposed Local Income Tax.
Under Labour, according to figures from the Office of National Statistics, spending on health in Scotland in 2006/07 was at £2,313 per head compared to £1915 in England.
“However the SNP have decided on a miserly increase of less than 1.5% - with hospitals getting even less – for the next three years. The NHS in England is receiving nearly 4% a year in real terms over the same time. This means that the SNP are spending less than Labour.”
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