Hansard

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.