Humza Yousaf has warned this winter will be one of the "most challenging" Scotland's NHS has ever faced as the service struggles to recover from the covid pandemic backlog.
It comes as a record number of people have been recruited to the ambulance service with 540 paramedics, ambulance drivers, call handlers, and clinicians all hired in 2021/22 which the Scottish Government said was a record high.
The government said that this is driven by a £45 million funding boost announced as part of last week's NHS winter resilience plan, which aims to ensure the NHS is working as efficiently as possible.
