About one in every six Scots is on a waiting list – a shocking proportion of the country’s population. Even worse is the news that waiting times are growing ever longer.
The General Election is looming ever closer and personality politics are taking centre stage – whether the main players are Rishi Sunak, Keir Starmer or John Swinney .
Waiting times have been growing ever longer and a record number of Scots are now awaiting diagnostic tests, operations or outpatient appointments. Politicians of all parties need to remember that these sad stats are not just numbers – everyone is a patient in pain or in fear of illness.So while the election is generating lots of heat, our political leaders can’t forget their day job – which is making public services work for all of us.
So Health Secretary Neil Gray needs to spend the next month dragging the NHS out of life support – and less time on the campaign trail drumming up votes for his political pals.An estimated 200,000 of them will be heading to Germany next month for the biggest knees-up in a generation.
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