An MSP has voiced “deep concern” over the spiralling number of patients on hospital waiting lists in Lanarkshire.
Meghan Gallacher, from the Scottish Conservatives, was responding to new statistics from Public Health Scotland showing that over 538,000 patients across Scotland are now on a waiting list.
More than 400,000 are waiting on an outpatient appointment, while close to 120,000 inpatient or day-case patients were waiting at the end of December.
