Waiting-list figures dim hope of agenda move

Waiting-list figures published before the election showed that Scotland had fallen significantly below the 84,000 that Labour inherited in 1997, but the 81,968 people waiting for treatment at the end of March fell far short of the party's 1997 pledge to reduce lists to 75,000.

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