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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
Politics
Nick Forbes

Sarwar pledges to slash NHS waiting times and end 8am GP appointment ‘scramble’

Scottish Labour leader Anas Sarwar pledged to ‘fix the mess’ in the health service (Robert Perry/PA) - (PA Wire)

Anas Sarwar has pledged to slash waiting times and end the 8am “scramble” for a GP appointment as part of his party’s plans to “fix the mess” in the health service.

As the Holyrood election campaign enters its first weekend, the Scottish Labour leader said “people feel Scotland is stuck” after two decades of the SNP – and that this is “no clearer than in our NHS”.

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