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1: Ross, Douglas (Con - Highlands and Islands) appointment; who are waiting too long for ambulances or to get into accident and emergency departments - Speech Link
2: Swinney, John (SNP - Perthshire North) and emergency into wider hospital care for the simple reason that those hospitals are congested because - Speech Link
3: Ross, Douglas (Con - Highlands and Islands) E departments and in ambulance waiting times. - Speech Link
4: Swinney, John (SNP - Perthshire North) That is why Scotland has an accident and emergency system that is the best performing in the United Kingdom - Speech Link

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1: Gulhane, Sandesh (Con - Glasgow) and emergency waiting targets unmet in four years; with cancer referral standards unmet in a decade; - Speech Link
2: Dunbar, Jackie (SNP - Aberdeen Donside) That takes pressure off GPs and A and E departments, and it means that patients can get a much more appropriate - Speech Link
3: Mackay, Gillian (Green - Central Scotland) them from turning up at accident and emergency unnecessarily. - Speech Link
4: Sweeney, Paul (Lab - Glasgow) , which then loads on to A and E departments. - Speech Link
5: White, Tess (Con - North East Scotland) Worst of all, we know that people are dying unnecessarily: in A and E departments alone, there were as - Speech Link

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1: None see much earlier person-centred care intervention to try to stop repeat journeys to hospital or to accident - Speech Link
2: None We know that around 20 per cent of all cancers will be picked up through the emergency pathway. - Speech Link
3: None E departments or emergency referrals across the health boards, to try to identify how many instances - Speech Link

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1: Sweeney, Paul (Lab - Glasgow) Waiting times in accident and emergency departments in Glasgow have been the worst on record this year - Speech Link
2: Gray, Neil (SNP - Airdrie and Shotts) and emergency departments—if they do not need to be there—through the flow navigation centres that we - Speech Link
3: Gray, Neil (SNP - Airdrie and Shotts) , when necessary, scheduled appointments at accident and emergency for care that is not deemed to be - Speech Link