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The vast majority of patients in nhs scotland get excellent care and very timely care, but recently, too many patients have not had that. we are starting to see, thankfully, an easing of some of the winter pressures, so we have had an improvement over recent days in accident and emergency are waiting times, for example. so we are working to support the health service through these pressures. your party has been in charge here for16 your party has been in charge here for 16 years, and during that time, the problems of the nhs have got worse. the situation has been exacerbated. what do you say t...

There are winter pressures, on top of the pressures that were already there, so certainly some appointments and bits of surgery and elective care will no doubt have to be postponed as a result. but there are certain exemptions that are built into what's going on, so the unions have agreed with employers and government that things like intensive care, members of staff will not go on strike if they work in those areas. so some things will be as they are always, other things will not. where are we with negotiations? is it the case that the rcn will only accept 19%, which is what they originally a...

Groups of professionals. so we don't know what's going to happen and how many people will go on strike, but if it's even more than it is now, just how badly impacted will the nhs be even more than it has been already? well, i guess the whole point of the action is to create leverage and therefore affect services, but not safety. i think it is very much what the nursing unions have said. as we know, there's a lot of pressure at the moment, there are winter pressures, on top of the pressures that were already there, so certainly some appointments and bits of surgery and elective care will no dou...

Employers. so they could come if they want to, go up to that level. then you have the other unions, so unison has a mandate in trusts in liverpool, but they have been talking about re—balloting their members in more places to get a mandate as well and there are of course the other health care unions as well that are involved in different disputes with different groups of professions. so different disputes with different groups of professions.— different disputes with different groups of professions. so we don't know what is _ groups of professions. so we don't know what is going _ groups o...

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