Cancer Survival Rates | Scottish Parliament debates
Recently, I met a courageous group of women from the west of Scotland who shared their experiences of being diagnosed with ovarian cancer and being forced to use their families’ life savings to fund private treatment in England. According to Target Ovarian Cancer, people in the west of Scotland cannot access the life-saving surgery that […]
Business Motions | Scottish Parliament debates
Given that the Scottish Government is delaying the process, will it seek the opportunity to put in place an external advisory board to help to shape the revised legislation?
National Health Service Waiting Times | Scottish Parliament debates
Is it not the case that you promised to end those waits, not simply reduce them, and that, by your own measure, you have failed?
National Health Service Waiting Times | Scottish Parliament debates
Will the cabinet secretary take an intervention?
National Health Service Waiting Times | Scottish Parliament debates
Scotland saw in the new year with accident and emergency departments in utter disarray as thousands of people—the sick and the injured—experienced long and dangerous waits. Only yesterday, we learned that, in the first week of 2024, only 59.4 per cent of patients were seen within four hours. Indeed, in Glasgow’s Queen Elizabeth university hospital, […]
