Scotland’s Health Service

As an amendment to motion S4M-06474 in the name of Jackie Baillie (Scotland's Health Service), leave out from “an ageing population” to end and insert "Scotland’s health service faces many demographic and lifestyle-related challenges in the coming years; recognises that the population of over 75-year-olds in Scotland is set to double over the next 20 years and that Scotland pays too high a price for the consequences of cheap alcohol; welcomes the Scottish Government’s commitment to at least maintaining the level of quality and provision in NHS Scotland in the face of these challenges; further recognises that adult health and social care integration is vital to meeting the future care needs of Scotland’s ageing population, and reiterates its support for the introduction of minimum alcohol unit pricing as one of the measures that will help improve the health of the nation."