Swinney pledges £25.5m to bring down NHS waits
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The Scottish government has pledged £25.5m to help bring down NHS waiting times. First Minister John Swinney said the money would help deliver more hospital appointments. It is to be shared by nine health boards - Ayrshire and Arran, Fife, Grampian, Greater Glasgow and Clyde, Highland, Lanarkshire, Lothian, Shetland and Tayside. The Scottish Conservatives said the £22.5m fund - out of a £22bn health and social care budget - would "bar
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