ARGYLL and Bute MSP Michael Russell says ‘genuine change is needed at the very top’ of the region’s health and social care executive, following its ‘eleventh-hour decision’ to reject a leaked, secret list of ‘terrifying’ service cuts.
The Integrated Joint Board (IJB), which met last Wednesday to decide on £13 million of savings proposed by officials in the Health and Social Care Partnership (HSCP), apologised for any ‘anxiety’ caused by the ‘unsettling speculation’.
Mr Russell welcomed IJB chairman Robin Creelman’s ‘well-timed’ apology, but said it wasn’t enough. He said: ‘He recognised [it] could not proceed with plans overwhelmingly rejected by the communities the IJB exists to serve.