Russell Findlay calls for emergency cancer care fund

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At First Minister’s Questions, Russell Findlay called for the SNP to use over £500 million of unspent funds to establish an emergency cancer care fund to bring down waiting times.

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This week it emerged that 1 in 3 cancer patients in Scotland don’t begin to receive treatment within the government’s target time.

In one health board, NHS Borders, fewer than half began treatment within the 62-day target.

Public health minister Jenni Minto admitted that lives are being lost because of late cancer diagnosis.

Behind these new and bleak statistics are real people. For them, and their families, the SNP’s culture of failure can be the difference between life and death.

This government’s flagship NHS Recovery Plan of 2021 is failing patients – just as we warned.

Promises to reduce cancer treatment times keep being broken, yet John Swinney will never criticise Humza Yousaf and Nicola Sturgeon’s plan.

This is unacceptable. Lives are being lost because of the SNP’s failures.

John Swinney must act urgently to reduce cancer treatment times. He should increase spending on cancer treatment and launch an emergency cancer care fund.

It’s shocking that the health secretary wasn’t even in Scotland to respond to these latest shocking figures. There’s a cancer care crisis, but Neil Gray took taxpayer-funded limos to the pub and the football, then decided to go to Japan.

This is more than a couple of bad calls. It’s a fundamental issue about his focus and professional judgment.

If Neil Gray really thinks his time is better spent in Japan than in Scotland during an NHS crisis, then he shouldn’t be health secretary. He’s not a serious person. He’s not up to the job.

What has the health secretary done to give John Swinney any confidence that he can bring down cancer waiting times?

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