One in eight people are on some form of waiting list for hospital treatment in Scotland, that is 708,000 people.
If you're reading this on a bus on the way to work, the chances are that someone on one of the seats around you is waiting, filled with anxiety or in pain, to be seen on the NHS.
When I challenged Nicola Sturgeon about this last week, I was met with a level of complacency which was almost delusional.
