Redesigning Primary Care for Scotland's Communities

As an amendment to motion S4M-15172 in the name of Shona Robison (Redesigning Primary Care for Scotland's Communities), insert at end "; notes however that, while there has been some shift in the balance of care from secondary to primary services, there has been a reduction in the primary care share of the overall health budget despite an increase in population and in patients with complex needs, and believes that the new models being tested with new roles for nurses, pharmacists and allied health professionals as well as GPs require appropriate core funding over the course of the next parliamentary session and an open and transparent debate at all levels regarding differential funding to tackle health inequalities".