Humza Yousaf pictured on his way to Bute House last week to be named the new Cabinet Secretary for Health and Social Care. NOW we have a new Government and Health Secretary it is timely that Professor David Kerr reminds us of his radical plan for the Scottish NHS of 15 years ago ("Progress has not come far enough, says NHS reforms academic", The Herald, May 24). Furthermore when the NHS absorbs almost 45 per cent of the Government’s budget one might consider that in Scotland we have a health service with a Government attached. Yet little notice of the ongoing failures in the health service were considered important by the electorate if recent voting patterns are interpreted.