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Stephen Temlett

Dumfries and Galloway cancer patient waited nearly a full year to begin treatment

A cancer patient in Dumfries and Galloway waited almost a year to begin treatment.

Statistics from Public Health Scotland revealed that no health board met the Holyrood Government’s target of 95 per cent of patients beginning treatment 62 days after an urgent suspicion of the disease.

The maximum wait across Scotland for a patient was 326 days, which was recorded in Dumfries and Galloway.

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