Donald Macaskill: key facts
- Kind of voice
- Sector leader
- Role
- head of the independent sector providers' organisation Scottish Care
- Quoted on
- Adult social care & reform
- Press citations held
- 3
- Most recently quoted
- 30 Sept 2026
- First quoted
- 29 Sept 2026
“I have a culpability in the fact that the National Care Home Contract is failing. It has failed. It's not working, and it certainly doesn't work for rural and remote and island communities.”
What Donald Macaskill has said
“We need a radical review of existing cost models; I would put forward the national care home contract as an example. The review needs to be based on the ethical commissioning principles that we have all worked on and agree with. At the end of the day, it comes back to the adequacy of the resources, because you cannot negotiate if there is an empty packet in front of you.”
head of the independent sector providers' organisation Scottish Care · Adult social care & reform · 29 Sept 2026 · Sceptical response to government’s care proposals ↗
“These proposals speak directly to what those who draw on care, their families, and our skilled workforce have been telling us for years. If we want a sustainable, dignified and human rights‑based care sector in Scotland, we must invest in the people and communities who make care possible.”
CEO of Scottish Care · Adult social care & reform · 8 Sept 2026 · ‘Time to fix social care’: Parklands sets out election priorities ↗
Where Donald Macaskill has been quoted
- Beyond the edge: why care homes are in crisishealthandcare.scot · 30 Sept 2026
- Sceptical response to government’s care proposalshealthandcare.scot · 29 Sept 2026
- ‘Time to fix social care’: Parklands sets out election prioritiescarehomeprofessional.com · 8 Sept 2026
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