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Under this Government, there has been an average of 1,000 more nurses in training each year compared with the position under the previous Administration.
All that is at a time when Scotland’s block grant faces a cut in day-to-day funding for each year of the spending review compared with 2021-22, in addition to the continuing impacts of Covid-19 and Brexit.
Kenneth Gibson: To ask the Scottish Government how many knife crimes there were in North Ayrshire in the most recent year for which information is available, and how this compares with the peak year for such offences since 1999.
In our sector, it would also help enormously with morale if staff in commissioned services were not treated as second-class citizens, compared with people in the rest of the system.