Equivalent of more than 1 in 7 Scots are on a waiting list

Responding to the latest Public Health Scotland figures which show that NHS waiting lists totalled 824,725 by the quarter ending December 2023, the equivalent of more than 1 in 7 Scots, Scottish Liberal Democrat health spokesperson Alex Cole-Hamilton MSP said:  

“Voting SNP is bad for your health. Far too many people are still waiting for vital scans, critical tests, and life-saving treatment; it is a bleak reality facing patients across Scotland.

“The blame for this lies solely at the door of the SNP and their mismanagement of the health system. They have failed to give our hard-working NHS staff the beds, safe staffing and resources they desperately need.    

“The new health secretary must not follow in the doomed footsteps of his predecessors. He must scrap Humza Yousaf’s failed recovery plan and bring forward a strategy that will meaningfully tackle burnout among staff and put their voices first as they tackle the crisis."