INVERCLYDE'S MSP insists that the only way to protect the future of the NHS is for it to be written into the constitution under independence. 

Stuart McMillan has welcomed a new Scottish Government blueprint to formally enshrine it and says this would protect the right to access healthcare, available free at the point of need.

The plan to create a constitution that provides recognition of the NHS in Scotland was included in a new paper from the Scottish Government.

Mr McMillan says this would ensure it remains publicly owned and operated.

The MSP said: “Our NHS is Scotland’s most loved public service so it is only right that such a valuable asset be enshrined into the constitution of an independent Scotland, so that NHS Greater Glasgow & Clyde can be protected for generations to come.

“With the Tories overseeing the creeping privatisation of the NHS in England and attacking the powers of the Scottish Parliament, we need independence to guarantee a system of health care, free at the point of need.

“While Labour looks the other way as the Tories systematically undermine the Scottish Parliament, the people of Inverclyde have never needed protection from Westminster more and with independence we will have a constitution to protect the NHS and people’s basic rights.”