The latest Audit Scotland report lays out the challenge facing the struggling health service.
Experts have warned that SNP Ministers may have to withdraw some health services to free up cash for the NHS. Audit Scotland said “difficult decisions” are needed as the NHS struggles to cope with rising costs.
But one in six Scots are languishing on waiting lists and patients are complaining about the time it takes to see a GP. In their latest report, Audit Scotland flagged up the pressures facing the health service, including rising costs, paused investment and “growing demand”. His report found that despite increased funding and staffing, the NHS is still seeing “fewer patients than before the Covid-19 pandemic”. Separate research published last week by the Institute for Fiscal Studies found that NHS recovery in Scotland after the pandemic had been slower than in England.
Scottish Labour deputy leader Jackie Baillie said: "John Swinney likes to talk up his NHS record but this damning report shows the scale of SNP incompetence on his watch. Spending on agency staff is up 45 per cent on five years ago yet delayed discharge is at a record high and the NHS is missing three-quarters of waiting list targets — after 17 years of the SNP, our health service is broken.
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