Scotland's NHS: A Tale of Backlogs and Election Promises
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Healthcare takes center stage in the Scottish election, with the NHS consuming a third of Holyroods budget and ranking as voters top public service. Parties clash over patient waits, using stats to criticize each other and compare to Englands NHS. Hospital treatment wait lists are a major issue, with Scotland reducing the longest ones for nine months but missing the goal to eliminate them. A and E departments and ambulance responses have all missed targets since Covid, with Scotland edging out England and Wales but still falling short. Cancer care also falls short of targets. Despite data inconsistencies across the UK, voters focus on Scotlands own goals amid these backlogs as election talk intensifies.
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