Scottish Liberal Democrat health spokesperson Alex Cole-Hamilton MSP has today led a cross party group of MSPs in writing to the First Minister and new Health Secretary to ask that they reinstate funding for HIV Scotland.

Scottish Liberal Democrat health spokesperson Alex Cole-Hamilton MSP has said that current cancer waits are an insult to patients and called for new leadership as figures released today revealed that performance against the 62-day waiting time target is at its worst ever level.

Responding to a new survey by BMA Scotland, Scottish Liberal Democrat health spokesperson Alex Cole-Hamilton MSP said:

Commenting on the 9% pay rise for NHS Scotland staff over the next 3 years, Scottish Liberal Democrat health spokesperson Alex Cole-Hamilton MSP said:

Scottish Liberal Democrats have today revealed patients have been in hospital on delayed discharge for up to 600 days after they were declared ready to leave, branding the situation “absurd".

Freedom of information requests by the party have uncovered the longest periods patients across the country had their discharge from hospital delayed for health and social care reasons during 2016/17 and 2017/18.

Responding to the Home Secretary’s announcement that EU citizens will have to answer there online questions to continue living in the UK, Edinburgh Western MSP Alex Cole-Hamilton said:

Responding to the publication of the Scottish Government's Tobacco-control action plan, Scottish Liberal Democrat health spokesperson Alex Cole-Hamilton MSP said:

Scottish Liberal Democrat health spokesperson Alex Cole-Hamilton MSP today said patients were being left in pain after new figures showed just half of patients were seen within the NHS physio waiting time target.

Scottish Liberal Democrat health spokesperson Alex Cole-Hamilton MSP today revealed that adults have waited years for psychological therapies and said the "shocking" figures demanded a stepchange in how we treat mental health.

Opposition parties today inflicted a defeat on the Government and demanded improvements to mental health services.