Taking Action on the NHS and Ambulance Crisis

The amendment

As an amendment to motion S6M-01302 in the name of Jackie Baillie (Taking Action on the NHS and Ambulance Crisis), leave out from “regrets” to end and insert “recognises that excessively long waits for an ambulance can lead to worse outcomes for patients, and that the Scottish Government and Scottish Ambulance Service have apologised to people who have experienced long waits; notes that the Scottish Government has previously invested an additional £20 million to increase staff capacity in the ambulance service by almost 300; welcomes that an extra £20 million is now being invested to increase capacity further, including funding military personnel, recruiting additional Hospital Ambulance Liaison Officers, working with NHS boards to create Temporary Admission Wards and aiming to recruit 100 paramedic students to help alleviate the current pressures on ambulance staff, NHS workers and patients; further notes that the steps outlined by the health secretary will help alleviate pressure on the service in the immediate term and looking ahead to the winter; commends military personnel and the Scottish Fire and Rescue Service, which are providing driving support to the ambulance service in order to free up paramedic and technician time; supports the additional investment of £500,000 to improve ambulance service staff welfare, and the ongoing discussions between the board and trade unions to develop a rest break action plan and put it in place as quickly as possible.”

1. 22 Sep 2021
   Taking Action on the NHS and Ambulance Crisis

   S6M-01302.3
   Carried

   68 for, 53 against

1. S6M-01302.1
   Taking Action on the NHS and Ambulance Crisis

   Alex Cole-Hamilton LD Lodged 21 Sep 2021
   No recorded vote
2. S6M-01302.2
   Taking Action on the NHS and Ambulance Crisis

   Sandesh Gulhane Con Lodged 21 Sep 2021
   Defeated

   53 for, 67 against

SNP 2

Party shown is each supporter’s party when the motion was published.

1. 22 Sep 2021
   Scottish Ambulance Service

   Humza Yousaf SNP Meeting of the Parliament

   I will be happy to take an intervention from Douglas Ross in my closing speech. Given that I am in my last minute, I will return to the issue of the wider pressures on the NHS. Jackie Baillie is correct in saying, as her motion does, that …
2. 22 Sep 2021
   Decision Time

   Alison Johnstone Meeting of the Parliament

   The next question is, that amendment S6M-01302.3, in the name of Humza Yousaf, which seeks to amend motion S6M-01302, in the name of Jackie Baillie, on taking action on the national health service and ambulance crisis, be agreed to. Are we…
3. 22 Sep 2021
   Decision Time

   Alison Johnstone Meeting of the Parliament

   The result of the division on amendment S6M-01302.3, in the name of Humza Yousaf, is: For 68, Against 53, Abstentions 0. Amendment agreed to.