Scottish Conservatives pledge enhanced health visiting service

Murdo Fraser MSP, Shadow Cabinet Secretary for Health & Wellbeing, has pledged the Scottish Conservatives to a £20million boost for enhancing health visitors.

Murdo Fraser MSP said:

"Scottish Conservatives are absolutely committed to an enhanced health visiting service attached to GP surgeries. That's why Scottish Conservatives have pledged to direct £20 million from the health budget towards providing more and better support for new parents through a massive increase in home health visiting services.

"Children deserve a decent start in life, so a guaranteed level of support will be offered to mothers until their child reaches the age of five.

"At this time of crisis in our public finances thanks to Labour's debt legacy - when delivering essential public services is proving hugely challenging – the SNP's aim of giving people like myself and Alex Salmond universal free prescriptions is a misuse of scarce resources and politically irresponsible. This money could be much better spent.

"The First Minister must commit to some of the money we would save if we ditched that plan, to improve provision of health visitors across Scotland instead."

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