A Health & Sport committee report has exposed the culture of secrecy that the SNP have created in our NHS. After 11 years of SNP control, staff feel unable to speak out about professional problems, and patients are kept out of the loop in decisions about their care or when things go wrong.

Sadly, NHS boards seem forced to cover up the challenges they face, and are reluctant to speak out before problems turn into a crisis.

The damning report comes as there are calls on new Health Secretary Jeane Freeman to undertake a review into ambulance provision across Scotland. It is concerning that we have seen such an increase in Scottish Patient Transport Service minibuses responding to emergency 999 incidents. It's yet another example of the separatists failing to get on with the day job due to their obsession with breaking up our United Kingdom.

Even the author of Nicola Sturgeon’s Indy Ref 2 report, Andrew Wilson, has admitted that we the Scottish people don’t want another referendum. People are sick and tired of Sturgeon's independence obsession. It is hurting our hospitals, schools, and our economy.

It’s time Sturgeon stopped grandstanding on the constitution and rule out another divisive referendum indefinitely.

Cllr Alastair Redman