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Craig Paton

Patients not getting right care in right place at right time, says Swinney

John Swinney announced plans to provide 150,000 more appointments and procedures (Jeff Mitchell/PA) - (PA Wire)

Patients in Scotland are not getting “the right care in the right place at the right time”, John Swinney has said.

The First Minister laid out a plan to improve Scotland’s ailing health service in a speech in Edinburgh on Monday, where he said waiting times for treatment were a “canary in the coal mine”.

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