NICOLA Sturgeon’s assertion that she will increase NHS elective output to 110 per cent of pre-Covid levels is fanciful, if not a dishonest pre-election bribe ("Sturgeon pledges to ‘remobilise’ health service and maximise hospital capacity", The Herald, April 7). Pre-Covid the NHS never achieved anywhere near 100% capacity for such as hips and knee replacements, as demonstrated by the hundreds of thousands who were failed by the 12 weeks statutory guarantee introduced by her. As a former health secretary such an assertion betrays either a gross lack of knowledge of the workings of the NHS, negligence, or more likely a despicably misleading election gambit.