Thank you so much, Presiding Officer.

Waiting lists are now at a staggering 864,000 people, or one in six of our fellow Scots, which is the highest number on record, although the Scottish Government promised to bring down waiting lists in the previous programme for government—another SNP failure.

Delayed discharge is also at a record high; it was not so long ago that the finance secretary was health minister and declared that delayed discharge would end—another SNP failure.

What about cancer treatment targets? The 62-day target has not been met in the 12 years since it was introduced, and now the 31-day target is being missed—another SNP failure.

Delays in accident and emergency are now normalised and winter pressures are now all year round—another SNP failure.

The use of the private sector has almost doubled, with 36 per cent of all hip and knee operations being done privately because people cannot wait any longer in pain. I very much welcome the attitude that is taken by the SNP Government when it keeps protesting that it is not creating a two-tier health service, but that is exactly what the SNP Government is presiding over.

Let me thank the staff who work for the NHS for all that they do. They are let down by the Government. So, too, are patients, as excess deaths are up and the Government’s failure is literally costing lives. What the Cabinet Secretary for Finance really did not want to talk about yesterday were the cuts that health boards are having to make right now. Caroline Lamb, who is the chief executive of NHS Scotland, told health boards in June that the expectation was that there would be a £1.1 billion shortfall in the NHS budget. In NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde alone, the deficit is about £226 million.