ANAS Sarwar has accused John Swinney of plunging Scotland’s NHS into a “doom-loop”.
His blast at the First Minister followed a report that revealed our health service is trailing England’s.
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Scottish Labour’s leader claimed the SNP supremo had his “head in the sand” over the extent of the problems.
It came after the Institute for Fiscal Studies revealed “almost all measures” of Scots NHS’s performance have worsened — including non-emergency waiting lists and numbers waiting more than four hours in A&E.
Mr Sarwar claimed: “The uncomfortable reality for John Swinney is that no public service in Scotland is safe from SNP incompetence.
“On his watch, our SNP has plunged into a doom-loop of soaring waiting lists and poorer health outcomes.
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“Our schools, once the envy of the world, have seen collapsing standards and rising violence.
“Our prisons, left in tatters with prisoners being let out early because of mismanagement of our criminal justice system.
“And our housing sector in disarray with soaring homelessness and spiralling rents. The fact is that after 17 years of the SNP, every institution in Scotland is weaker.”
He pinpointed rising violence days after Nats and Greens MSPs voted to free hundreds more inmates early.
During the exchange at First Minister’s Questions, Mr Sarwar also slammed “soaring” homelessness under the Nats Government.
He insisted: “After 17 years of the SNP, every institution in Scotland is weaker.”
But the First Minister defended their record.
Mr Swinney told MSPs: “On a whole range of different elements of policy, the Government is delivering progress people in Scotland require.”
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