National Health Service Waiting Lists | Scottish Parliament debates
Will the minister take an intervention?
National Health Service Waiting Lists | Scottish Parliament debates
Will the cabinet secretary give way?
National Health Service Waiting Lists | Scottish Parliament debates
I move, That the Parliament is concerned that almost 825,000 patients are stuck on NHS waiting lists for tests and treatment, whilst long waits have continued to rise, despite the current First Minister promising to eradicate them; is disappointed that the statutory 12-week Treatment Time Guarantee has been broken 680,000 times since it was introduced, […]
National Health Service Waiting Lists | Scottish Parliament debates
I thank all staff who are employed in the NHS. We know that they work incredibly hard to care for us, but they are being let down by the Scottish National Party Government. It has been two years and seven months since Humza Yousaf published the Scottish Government’s NHS recovery plan. The First Minister at […]
Health Budget | Scottish Parliament debates
Patients and staff have been promised state-of-the-art national treatment centres for many years now, specifically to increase capacity and tackle the waiting list backlog. As a result of the real-terms reduction in health spending in the forthcoming financial year, the cabinet secretary has instructed health boards to halt all project plans. Now that the NHS […]