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Leonard pushes for health secretary to quit over NHS crisis

HEALTH secretary Shona Robison faced renewed calls to quit yesterday after the revelation that her health service failed to dispatch an ambulance to a terminal brain cancer patient.

Scottish Labour leader Richard Leonard said that more than 16,000 emergency ambulances had taken longer than an hour to arrive on the scene last year.

He raised the case of Margaret Goodman, a woman from Clackmannanshire receiving palliative care for brain cancer.

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