With the most recent figures showing an overspend of almost £16 million, Fife Liberal Democrat Deputy Leader Councillor James Calder is raising the issue at the upcoming Fife Council meeting. He is bringing forward a motion asking the Council leader to write to the Scottish Health Secretary to ask what support they will provide to resolve this situation.

Councillor Calder said,

There is an enormous black hole in NHS Fife’s finances, and this is endemic of the issues that the NHS is facing across Scotland.

With people already struggling to access services, there will be understandable worries amongst Fife residents about this huge overspend.

The Scottish Government need to get its act together and sort out this crisis in our NHS.

I hope councillors can unite to send a message to the Scottish Health Minister that they need to step in and protect local NHS services.