Scottish Liberal Democrat Health spokesperson Alex Cole-Hamilton has today backed calls from Age Scotland for an investigation into the use of Do Not Resuscitate orders during the Covid pandemic. 

Scottish Liberal Democrat MSP for Edinburgh Western, Alex Cole-Hamilton has today welcomed additional funding secured by the Scottish Liberal Democrats in this year's Scottish budget.

Responding to the news that the First Minister's 12-week legal Treatment Time Guarantee was breached a further 37,230 times between March and December 2020, after being broken 6,000 times a month before the pandemic struck, Scottish Liberal Democrat health spokesperson Alex Cole-Hamilton MSP commented:

The Scottish Liberal Democrat spring conference has today backed a package of proposals to "fix overwhelmed mental health services for good".

Speaking after the First Minister's appearance at today's harassment inquiry, Alex Cole-Hamilton MSP said:

Local MSP Alex Cole-Hamilton has been working with local GPs to identify problems in the vaccine rollout system in order to take them back to ministers.

Alex Cole-Hamilton has welcomed the decision to allow care home visits to resume.

Local MSP Alex Cole-Hamilton has raised the plight of new parents, many of whom spent lockdown shielding, with the First Minister. In England, new parents can form support bubbles with other new parents, but in Scotland they are denied this.

Commenting on the intention of Edinburgh council to enter talks with the Scottish Government to set up buffer zones around abortion clinics, Edinburgh Western MSP and Scottish Liberal Democrat health spokesperson, Alex Cole-Hamilton remarked:

New analysis carried out by the Scottish Liberal Democrats shows that over 150,000 scheduled operations have been lost to the pandemic between March and December 2020.