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The number of patients waiting over two years for tests or treatment was higher in Lanarkshire alone than across the entirety of the NHS in England.

Official NHS statistics show that there were 257 waits of more than two years in NHS Lanarkshire across inpatient and outpatient cases – more than the 182 in all of England.

Labour's Joe Fagan said this week NHS England is "effectively eradicating" two year waits following targeted new investment by the Labour Government elected last year.

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