John Swinney has admitted that the NHS is in crisis. That will be little surprise to thousands of Scots patiently waiting for operations.

Over 800,000 of us are on waiting lists and it is a struggle to see a GP. Seeing patients languishing in hospital corridors is another scandal.

The First Minister’s response is to propose 150,000 extra appointments or procedures in the coming year. And an NHS app to bring the service into the digital age.

There’s also additional funding for more GPs. But Record readers have been here before. We have heard about plans to save the NHS from every health secretary since the SNP came to power.

After the SNP’s first Holyrood election win in 2007, then health secretary Nicola Sturgeon vowed “unnecessary waiting for........

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