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Where the former Labour-run Scottish Executive had failed on cutting NHS waiting times for treatment, the minority SNP Government elected in 2007 delivered.
Nicola Sturgeon, as health secretary, had attacked Labour while in opposition for using ?hidden waiting lists? ? lists of people not treated in line with targets but instead given codes keeping them out of official figures.
She abolished these and set up the new system, currently under tough scrutiny, in 2008.
Now in a different job focusing on the campaign for an independent Scotland, she still appears to be well respected within the health community.
However, the NHS Lothian scandal, which cast doubt on the veracity of waiting times performance figures nationwide, has cracked the solid foundation on which she stood.
http://www.heraldscotland.com/news/...-pressure-as-grand-nhs-plan-cracks.2013026451
Nicola Sturgeon, as health secretary, had attacked Labour while in opposition for using ?hidden waiting lists? ? lists of people not treated in line with targets but instead given codes keeping them out of official figures.
She abolished these and set up the new system, currently under tough scrutiny, in 2008.
Now in a different job focusing on the campaign for an independent Scotland, she still appears to be well respected within the health community.
However, the NHS Lothian scandal, which cast doubt on the veracity of waiting times performance figures nationwide, has cracked the solid foundation on which she stood.
http://www.heraldscotland.com/news/...-pressure-as-grand-nhs-plan-cracks.2013026451