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Meeting of the Parliament 12 June 2025

12 Jun 2025 · S6 · Meeting of the Parliament
Item of business
First Minister’s Question Time
National Health Service (Treatment Waiting Times)
Swinney, John SNP Perthshire North Watch on SPTV

The information about the length of waits is available. Mr Choudhury put a question to me about the visibility of that information and Dr Gulhane has just done likewise. That information is available.

I have indicated to the Parliament that the long waits are unacceptable. That is why the focus of our intervention is on addressing those long waits and ensuring that people do not wait as long as the person has done in the case that Dr Gulhane has put to me. The Government is absolutely focused on reducing those long waits, and I want to see more progress being made.

The issue is the subject of regular dialogue between me, the Cabinet Secretary for Health and Social Care and the leadership of the national health service. All health boards are seized of the importance of the issue, which I reiterate today.

In the same item of business

6. Foysol Choudhury (Lothian) (Lab) Lab
To ask the First Minister how the Scottish Government is working to ensure that patients are accurately informed of waiting times for NHS treatments followin...
The First Minister (John Swinney) SNP
We recognise the importance of transparent and regular communication with patients, which is why we have in place a standard package of communications that a...
Foysol Choudhury Lab
It has been more than a year since my constituent was referred to a dermatologist. He does not know when he will be seen, and his skin condition and mental h...
The First Minister SNP
As I have made clear on a number of occasions, there are individuals who are waiting too long for treatment. There are many people who are treated timeously ...
Joe FitzPatrick (Dundee City West) (SNP) SNP
The issue that Mr Choudhury raises is really important. Can the First Minister say more about what the Scottish Government is doing to reduce waiting times f...
The First Minister SNP
In the past financial year, we invested an additional £30 million to drive action to address the longest waits. We expected that that would deliver 64,000 ap...
Sandesh Gulhane (Glasgow) (Con) Con
I declare an interest as a practising NHS general practitioner. I was contacted by John, who had already waited 40 weeks for orthopaedic surgery. He had had...
The First Minister SNP
The information about the length of waits is available. Mr Choudhury put a question to me about the visibility of that information and Dr Gulhane has just do...
The Presiding Officer NPA
There is a particularly high level of interest in supplementary questions across the chamber. I would be grateful for concise questions and responses.