Day: 2 March 2026

Corridors are the symptom: The system is the cause

Corridors are the symptom: The system is the cause Worried doctor with head down in hospital corridor

EVERY WINTER CORRIDORS FILL WITH OLDER PATIENTS ON TROLLEYS, headlines decry indignity, and ministers promise action. But corridor care is not a seasonal failure; it is the predictable outcome of a system in which emergency departments have become the default destination whenever community care cannot safely hold risk. As community services erode and hospital slack […]

Reform can win with a prosperity vision

Reform can win with a prosperity vision Malcolm Offord standing at a podium for a press confernece

FOR FAR TOO LONG, Scotland has been drifting in the wrong direction. As I’ve been going around the country, speaking to communities, this sense of drift is palpable. With ten weeks to go until polling day, people are crying out for new vision instead of the vacuum of the last nineteen years. Under the SNP, […]