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SNP budget waiting list pledge should already have been met, says Labour
Scottish Finance Secretary Shona Robison vowed in her budget statement to end year-long waits by March 2026

AN SNP PLEDGE to wipe out NHS waits of more than a year should already have been met, Scottish Labour said today.

Scottish Finance Secretary Shona Robison vowed in her budget statement to end year-long waits by March 2026, just two months before the next Holyrood election.

The pledge is a repeat of one made in July 2022 when, in the wake of Public Health Scotland reports that 72,405 people had waited more than a year for a new outpatient appointment, inpatient treatment or day-case treatments.

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