I don’t know about you but I’m getting pretty sick of non-answers.

By that I mean either people dodging entirely or some word salad that sounds like an answer but actually leaves the questioner – and everyone else – no more informed than before.

Most recently I have seen this regarding Perth Royal Infirmary, and more specifically, the closure of the hospital’s accident and emergency department.

Health minister quizzed over Perth Royal Infirmary

MSP Murdo Fraser was asking Angela Constance in a session at Holyrood about the chatter around the A&E potentially closing, something I – and I’m sure many others who live in Perthshire – am concerned about.

Instead of a definitive response, we got the aforementioned word salad: “I will write to Mr Fraser with full details on his point about emergency departments. It is an important issue, because any such move would be a significant service delivery change.

“National health service boards, through their functions and authorities, have to consider how best to facilitate the right care at the right time, but it is worth putting on the record that........

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