NHS Scotland will receive a £30 million cash injection as the service continues to struggle post-Covid and with chronic understaffing. 

Then first minister Humza Yousaf pledged £100m over three years last October in an effort to cut waiting lists by 100,000.

Now SNP Health Secretary Neil Gray has announced the first £30m tranche will be targeted at areas where wait-times are most acute: cancer care, ophthalmology, orthopaedics, dermatology and diagnostics.