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From the newsletter: More and more money is being spent on the NHS, but it isn’t making us any healthier.

“I’m worried in the future, will it ever actually come to social care? Because we’re talking three years down the road and we might have an election at that time, so it’s very concerning," said Mike Padgham, chairman of the Independent Care Group

“I would urge the public to please treat staff with kindness and respect; they are doing their very best to keep our hospitals safe."

"£350 million a week since January last year is tens of billions of pounds, why isn't that bailing out the NHS?"

"That could leave little if any of the tax rises announced yesterday available for social care.”

A YouGov poll found voters are split in their views on the national insurance rise - but how will MPs respond?

“I’m in a situation now where I desperately need a colonoscopy test, every day I’m left thinking could it be cancer? I’m also waiting for my doctor which is just as difficult, how do you see a doctor?," Mr Perks has asked.

Holyrood has struck deals with £35 million to buy out the car parks at Ninewells Hospital in Dundee and Glasgow Infirmary. 

Multiple sclerosis patients are refused access to a legal cannabis treatment which could ease their symptoms, a charity said.