National Health Service (Dumfries and Galloway)

Part of General Question Time – in the Scottish Parliament am ar 6 Chwefror 2025.

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Photo of Oliver Mundell Oliver Mundell Ceidwadwyr

It is always good to hear positive examples but, clearly, services are under pressure, with a crisis in dental provision, challenges in the provision of primary care and worrying delays to hospital discharge. One patient in Dumfries and Galloway has been stuck in hospital for 916 days.

Although I accept that such cases can be complicated, surely the cabinet secretary agrees that that is unacceptable and that it drives growing fears among elderly constituents that if they go into hospital, they might not get back out again. What is the Scottish Government doing to investigate such cases, which are prevalent across Scotland? What is it doing to address the growing challenges around delayed discharge?