The Scottish Government promised to clear all waits of more than two years by September 2022. People are waiting four, five, six or seven years for treatment, so that response will be cold comfort for people across the country right now.

There is no commitment to guarantee care packages for the 1,500 people who are needlessly stuck in hospital in order to free up much-needed beds and resources. There is no commitment to clear long waits of more than two years by Christmas, which means patients suffering and pressures being added to A and E departments. Those solutions would unlock much-needed capacity in our NHS.

The health secretary published his winter preparedness plan two weeks ago, but it has already been dismissed by key figures in our NHS. Rather than having an actual plan for winter, the Government is supposedly moving to year-round surge planning. Despite what the health secretary says, that proves that we have a crisis in our NHS all year round—a permanent crisis in our NHS. Will the First Minister listen to doctors and nurses on the front line and come back to the Parliament with an actual plan to meet the scale of the NHS crisis this winter?