Following a statement by NHS Tayside in response to the waiting times issues raised at today’s First Minister’s Questions, Nicol Stephen, Leader of the Liberal Democrats in Scotland said:

“Clearly, if this issue had not been raised by me today these patients would have been left languishing in a ‘no-treatment no-man’s-land’.

“There is no dispute that patients were forcibly removed from waiting lists. This was as a direct result of the current government’s policy.

“We now need a guarantee from the government that no other patients in Scotland have been treated in this disgraceful way.”