David Eyre Broadcast Journalist, Politics Show Scotland

When the Scottish Executive took over responsibility for running the National Health Service in Scotland people were promised that their health services would be more responsive to their needs.

Campaigners stood as MSPs over plans to close the Victoria Infirmary

Devolution, after all, was about bringing decision making closer to the people.

But in recent years, from the Highlands to the Lowlands, angry local people have set up campaign groups protesting about changes in the NHS.

In Caithness, mothers-to-be are protesting over the possible closure of their maternity hospital in Wick.

Pregnant women would have to travel 100 miles to Inverness to have their babies.

In Fort William and Oban, local people were up in arms over a hospital reorganisation that could see either of their local hospitals lose 24-hour accident and emergency cover.

In Glasgow, campaigners stood for election to the Scottish Parliament in protest at the proposed closures of Stobhill Hospital and the Victoria Infirmary.

Victory over Labour

One of them, Dr Jean Turner, scored an amazing victory over the sitting Labour MSP.

There is also widespread anger at the NHS approval of plans to shut the Queen Mother's Maternity Hospital in Glasgow.

Maternity service suspended at Caithness General Hospital

In Lothian, many people have been angered by the centralising of many services at the new Edinburgh Royal Infirmary, a new hospital built under the Private Finance Initiative.

Now it appears that all these campaigns are coming together.

This weekend representatives from all over Scotland are meeting in Perth to discuss how they can work together.

They will discuss setting up a nationwide health campaign, highlighting problems of centralisation, lack of accountability and lack of any democratic say in the process of planning local health services.

Locally elected NHS boards?

Things are still at an early stage, but one national campaign strategy could be to call for the members of NHS boards to be directly elected by local people.

More worryingly for the political parties, campaigners will also be looking at whether they should be getting more involved in electoral politics.

The prospect of a whole raft of Jean Turner-like candidates standing across Scotland is sure to worry the ruling Labour and Lib Dem coalition.

Politics Show

Amber Henshaw and Politics Show Scotland travelled to Perth to talk to campaigners and find out how they plan to put health at the top of the political agenda.

Let us know what you think. That is the Politics Show on Sunday 16 May at Midday.

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