Health Crisis Timebomb
Daily Record|May 26, 2021
Covid backlog leaves 28k waiting for treatment
Vivienne Aitken
Health Crisis Timebomb

Scotland is heading for a health crisis with more than 28,000 patients waiting a year or more for hospital treatment as the NHS tries to tackle coronavirus.

Labour’s health spokeswoman Jackie Baillie told Health Secretary Humza Yousaf there was “no time to dither and delay” and demanded a new strategy to avert disaster.

And a leading charity predicted a looming cancer epidemic if the waiting times crisis is not tackled.

This story is from the May 26, 2021 edition of Daily Record.

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