Health
NHS Scotland: how much is being spent?
Author / Creator: Claire Milne
Media type: Fact check
Date published:
The planned increase in day-to-day spending on health in Scotland between 2006/07 and 2018/19 has gone up by £4 billion to £13 billion. It doesn’t account for inflation though, once that is added the increase is £2 billion.
Believe in Scotland’s Manifesto for Wellbeing.
Author / Creator: The National
Media type: News Media
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Ask yourself: wouldn’t you like to live in a country with a social/economic/environmental policy framework based on this set of values? Wouldn’t you like to be able to vote to create such a nation?
Ending Lockdown
Author / Creator: Craig Dalzell
Media type: Policy Paper
Date published:
This paper models the cost of a comprehensive testing-based strategy to limit the spread of Covid-19 in Scotland and to allow the country to emerge safely from its blanket lockdown.
The Predictable Crisis
Author / Creator: Nick Kempe
Media type: Policy Paper
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Common Weal investigates the impact of Covid-19 in Scottish Care homes and finds that the warnings about the weaknesses in pandemic preparation were repeatedly ignored with the result of causing “The single greatest failure in devolved government since the creation of the Scottish Parliament”
Concern Over Lack Of Testing
Author / Creator: Common Weal
Media type: News Item
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Common Weal’s Local Groups call for an increase in the ambition of its proposed Test, Trace, Isolate and Support plans.
Common Weal's Manifesto for a National Care Service
Author / Creator: Common Weal Care Reform Group
Media type: Policy Paper
Date published:
This Manifesto lays out the principles of care that should be met by any proposed blueprint for Care reform and will be followed up in due course with a comprehensive blueprint for an NCS that would meet these principles and align with the values of Common Weal.
Better than This
Author / Creator: Common Weal
Media type: Policy Paper
Date published: 2021
We must emerge from the Covid pandemic in a way that
Fixes the problems raised by the crisis.
Fixes the problems evident before the crisis and makes us resilient.
Implements a green new deal.
Establishes a new democracy.
Begins a national care service.
Starts land reform.
Creates a housing revolution.
Controls our own energy.
Provides better banking
Focus on independence.