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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Lauren Gilmour

Lives ‘at risk’ as some patients wait nearly five years for key tests – Tories

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Patients’ lives are being “put at risk” after figures revealed some waited almost five years for key diagnostic tests, the Scottish Conservatives say.

One patient in NHS Grampian waited 258 weeks for a CT scan while another in the health board waited 255 weeks for an MRI scan in what the party says is a “ticking timebomb” for the NHS.

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