The Press and Journal have today published concerns by the Labour party that combined the Scottish health boards spend £11m a year on car leasing.
The figures showed that Scotland’s health boards spend £10.8million a year leasing 7,318 vehicles. Ms Baillie said: “ These figures are astonishing is a main quote with the article. These vehicle combine luxury models o=for senior staff down to vehicles being leased for district nurses for personal visits. A statement was made that it does not makes sense t spend this amount on vehicle leasing when budgets are being cut throughout the NHS. labour make the point that is they were elected they would spend the money on patient services not executive perks. Staff needed to travel more than 4,000 business miles each year to qualify for a car, as well as being using car leasing schemes for over 20 years, stating they were good value for money.
You can read the concern of luxury NHS cars article here within the Press and Journal.
