Update: Funding cuts
Despite the claims of some, there has been a real terms cut in the funding being made available for services such as care for the elderly and young people.
28 Feb 2024
News
Liberal Democrat News
Celebrating Liberal Democrat Councillor Jenni Murray and her family!
The “Becoming Us” exhibition at St Albans Museum is a celebration of the African Caribbean community who helped shape our city.
28 Feb 2024
222,398 four week waits for a GP appointment in North Yorkshire last year
Four week waits for a GP appointment in North Yorkshire reached 222,398 last year. It is a 56% increase on those waiting more than 28 days compared to 2022. The number waiting 14 days or longer in North Yorkshire saw a 33% increase from 2022.
28 Feb 2024
West Lothian
Councillor Sally Pattle’s comment on the council budget
Impossible decisions had to be made last week when West Lothian Council’s budget was set for the year ahead.
28 Feb 2024
Time to press destruct on the SNP’s billion-pound bureaucracy
Speaking ahead of the forthcoming Scottish Parliament vote on the Scottish Government’s social care plans, Scottish Liberal Democrat leader Alex Cole-Hamilton has described the plans as "outrageously expensive and completely unworkable" and called for the
29 Feb 2024
Cole-Hamilton responds to neonatal deaths review
Responding to the publication of the Healthcare Improvement Scotland’s report on neonatal mortality, which indicated that more comprehensive reviews of neonatal deaths were needed, following a spike in baby deaths in September 2021 and March 2022, Scottis
27 Feb 2024