As many of you will be aware from my Facebook page, I have been writing to Michael Matheson MSP, the SNP’s Health Secretary, to try to get updates on a new GP service at the Liberton High School site.
The site was originally supposed to contain a new GP service, which would help to provide primary care for some of the 20,000 constituents in Edinburgh South that cannot register with a GP, but the funding was pulled by then-Health Secretary Humza Yousaf.
You can find links to my letters below:
My response to Michael Matheson after he laid the blame for a lack of GP service delivery on NHS Lothian staff (11th September 2023)
Michael Matheson’s response to my letter (27th September 2023)
I wrote to Michael Matheson asking why the SNP were unwilling to fund a new GP service in the High School (2nd October 2023)
I received a response from Callum Campbell, Chief Executive of NHS Lothian, about why the health board cannot afford to provide new GP services without funding from the Scottish Government (5th October 2023)
Michael Matheson’s response to my letter (26th October 2023)
I wrote to Andrew Kerr, Chief Executive of the City of Edinburgh Council, to ask the council to build the shell of a new service in the new Liberton High School, so that the building is ready if and when a Scottish Government is elected that is committed to funding primary care (13th November 2023)