The far north Liberal Democrat MP brought the first adjournment debate of the new parliamentary term on access to rural healthcare
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00:00We are here to discuss the adequacy of healthcare services in rural areas. For fear of being
00:08very predictable, I am afraid to say, as you can imagine, that health services in the Highlands
00:12are not at allâin fact, they are not even faintly adequate. Let me give you some examples.
00:17Of course, I recognise that health is devolved, but I have to say that 17 years of centralisation
00:24has wreaked havoc on my part of the world. Health services have been stripped back and
00:29gutted, leaving my constituents with access to far too few local services.