Ex-health minister blames governments for state of NHS
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Getty Images Jeane Freeman said politicians had failed to seek the views of clinicians "because politics gets in the way of it"
Former health secretary Jeanne Freeman has said the current state of the NHS in Scotland is the result of failures by successive governments – including her own. Freeman said politicians never took a long-term view beyond the next election on how the service should be managed and improved.
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