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Politics
Chris McCall

NHS waiting times crisis in Scotland is 'costing lives', Nicola Sturgeon told

Nicola Sturgeon has been warned her government's failure to tackle the NHS waiting times crisis was "costing lives".

Anas Sarwar told the First Minister today that more than 3,300 Scots had been left waiting longer than the 62-day standard to begin cancer treatment in the past year.

The Scottish Labour leader raised the case of a mum-of-four from Edinburgh who waited seven months for a diagnosis only to be told she had an aggressive form of endometrial cancer.

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