Scottish NHS funding shortfall

The Scottish NHS is suffering from a major funding shortfall and is expected to end the financial year with a deficit of £183m.

This is despite Scotland receiving an average of £213 per person, per year, more than England for health expenditure.

I accept that Scotland has to provide health services to very rural areas but then so does England. The English NHS also has to provide health services to the huge number of asylum seekers and refugees who live here as well as to Scottish and Welsh patients who live in the borders for a knock down price.

No mention of cutbacks though, I expect they'll just end up with more money to plug the gap while English hospitals go on cutting services to try and balance the books on ever decreasing budgets.