Scotland's first GP walk-in centre is now open - seven days a week, 12-8pm. We will announce 14 more locations soon, making it easier than ever for you to get care you need. GP numbers are up, long waits are down, and the SNP will keep delivering progress in... our NHS.show more

“ … making it easier than ever for you to get care you need …” Have you lost your tiny mind? Where I am, nobody can get a GP appointment inside 3 weeks and even then it’ll likely be just a phone call. This is pure gaslighting. Be ashamed.

You pressurising the opening of this place as well Swinney ?? Hope you don’t kill people this time ??

@OlafSNP Been waiting since Covid for this and you think it’s acceptable to do it 3 months before an election to make yourself look good. Pansy

What about chaotic dental waiting lists 6-8 months in some areas can't even register my son. You's are all the same pull a smile and pose and tell you it's getting better while the walls are falling down around you. 🥴🥴

Do you have to show your SNP membership?

@theSNP Wouldn’t expect anything else from a party that cares about Scotland , a far cry from the Westminster Pillagers that have no interest in Scotland except to take our resources to support the Uk Treasury .

There’s no GP’s to staff these things. What about all hospitals having their budgets cut? Funding has been reduced and departments are expected to make 5-10% savings. That means less drugs prescribed, range of treatments cut and staff not replaced. SNP are trashing the NHS.

@theSNP What do you know @JohnSwinney what you hiding

Meanwhile

Where are you getting the GP’s from? In the last year, there was an increase of 451,122 patients registered with GP practices in Scotland. This rise reflect challenges in the healthcare system, including a shortage of GPs. The shortage of GPs in Scotland leads to longer wait times for appointments, reduced access to care, and increased pressure on existing doctors, which can negatively impact the quality of patient care. Many practices are also forced to close their patient lists, leaving some individuals unable to register with a GP.

@theSNP It's in an existing GP surgery and only available to local registered patients. Doctors’ leaders say shifting resources around without providing more doctors won't make a blind bit of difference to the big picture of the struggle to get appointments. More SNP smoke and mirrors!!

Do you & the other Gravy Train clan not get sick of punting the same old shite for the last 18 yrs. The last couple of months all of a sudden everything is up & other things are down under the SNP is it because of an election next year.

SWINNEY 👠 👠 The usual from the SNP. Nothing new to see here!

Amazing what he can achieve with the election 3 months away

Where are the GPs coming from to work these walk-in clinics? Will there be someone there to take bloods? Where has the funding come from?

Excellent news.

Tested the water and ventilation this time?

Up to 1 year wait for an appointment at a nhs dental hospital. So forgive me for not getting the bunting & flags out for this news.

An existing GP practice, open only to local registered patients. Here I was thinking you’d found new GP’s in Murrel’s camper van.

Are you & @neilcgray going to go along to the Queen Elizabeth University Hospital in Glasgow and drink a few pints of the cold water you expect the patients to drink?

Where north of the central belt is it John?

What no appointment, you kunts are taking the piss

Every GP Surgery should be able to offer walk-in appointments.

The rest of Scotland? Keep dialling at dawn like it's 1995...

Lies. If there are enough doctors for us all to be seen at 8am then we wouldn't have to wait 2 weeks for an appointment. Pure pre-election propaganda pish.

Alert the history books, summon the bagpipes, and cue the slow-motion montage of John Swinney cutting a ribbon like he just cured world hunger. A medical miracle on the scale of penicillin and indoor plumbing combined.

Well done ScotGov 👏👍👍🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

Truly visionary leadership: spend millions to half-reinvent walk-ins from 20 years ago, limit it to one tiny postcode, pat yourselves on the back for "progress."

@AngusRobertson It’s a full time job blocking all these bots.

This is a complete lie, all you’ve done is shuffle the deck chairs on the titanic, or maybe you’ve knitted some GPs overnight

Wank