Scottish Labour leader criticizes the SNP's handling of the NHS, highlighting long A&E waits, staff shortages, and the impact on patient care.
The Christmas holidays should be a time for relaxation and celebration, but once again the crisis in our NHS has cast a shadow over the break. Anyone struggling with their health at this time should be able to trust that the NHS will be there for them in their hour of need, but under the SNP that is too often not the case. The consequences of SNP incompetence for our NHS have been painfully clear this winter. We have seen patients in desperate need of help facing dangerously long waits in A&E.
Hospitals stretched to breaking point as flu cases spike. Staff exhausted and demoralised after being bounced from one crisis to another. Have no doubt – this chaos is costing lives. Analysis by Scottish Labour has shown that long A&E waits may have caused more than 2000 excess deaths in the first ten months of this year alone – before winter even hit. Winter is always challenging for our NHS, but under the SNP our NHS is at crisis point all year round and the winter months are worse still. Our NHS is constantly teetering on the brink of disaster, unable to cope with the added pressures of the colder months. As the new year begins, the need for a change in direction could not be clearer. This year Labour began the process of change by getting rid of a disastrous Tory government that was doing so much damage to our country. It has been a transformative year and I am proud that with your support the hard work of change has begun – but the job is only half done. Over the course of 2025 - with energy, humility and hard work - I will seek to demonstrate that we need a new direction in Scotland too. Because there is so much more that needs to be done to improve the lives of Scots. More must be done to ensure that we have public services there to help people in need. The crisis in our NHS is proof of that – but the challenges our country face run far deepe
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