Cancer is Scotland’s biggest killer, whether it is a rare sarcoma or a more common cancer, yet waiting times for cancer treatment in the first quarter of this year were the worst on record. Quoting median waits is no comfort for those who are waiting longer. This is a matter of life or death, and the First Minister’s own minister accepted that people have been dying as a result of those delays.

This very week, the chair of the British Medical Association Scotland said that the NHS was “dying before our eyes”. How much longer do we need to tolerate the Scottish National Party Government, which is not delivering improvements and which continues to let down staff and patients, with devastating results?