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| Macdonald says First Minister has let down North East |
First Minister Alex Salmond today failed to explain his Government's decision to end cleft lip and palate surgery in the North East.
Aberdeen Central MSP Lewis Macdonald asked him how the changes, announced by Health Minister Nicola Sturgeon last week, would lead to better services for the 220 patients and families in Aberdeen and the North East.
Mr Salmond said only 15 operations were carried out in Aberdeen last year. He claimed that doctors had advised Ministers to end the service, but he did not say how or why patients would be better off.
`The Mr Salmond was elected on a promise that there would be a presumption against centralisation of health services,` Lewis Macdonald said today. `They said Boards would have to show that changes would lead to better services. Yet we know NHS Grampian argued against this change, and the First Minister was not able to suggest how moving surgery to Edinburgh would lead to a better service for patients.
`Instead, all he told us was that the Executive were going to support local provision of services in Central Scotland. That will be of little comfort to my constituents, or to patients and families in Mr Salmond's own constituency.`
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