Doctors at Glasgow University found that between 1974 and 2003, a total of 462,000 people died in Scotland as a result of health service failings.
...The study examined the number of deaths caused by a lack of "timely and effective health care".
The vast majority of people - around 250,000 - who died due to inadequate or delayed treatment were heart or stroke patients.
Another 7300 had cancer and slightly more than 2000 were pneumonia patients.
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