Scotland's Finance Secretary yesterday unveiled details of a further £615million worth of spending cuts.
The "reductions and reprioritisations" are in addition to £560million of cuts announced in September.
John Swinney said the financial situation facing the Scottish Government was by far the most challenging since devolution.
And soaring inflation meant this year's budget was now worth £1.7billion less than when in was introduced last December.
Mr Swinney also said savings needed to be made to offset the impact of Brexit, public-sector pay deals and help for Ukrainian refugees.
The BBC says the measures he announced included reprioritising £400million from the NHS budget in order to provide a "fair pay deal" for health staff - although he stressed that the overall NHS budget was unchanged.
Pausing programmes
Some £116million of this had been due to be spent on Covid vaccines, testing and PPE, with a further £38million coming from the mental-health budget and £63million from "re-phasing and pausing" programmes including the Scottish Trauma Network.
It also includes £65million from primary care services and £70million from "social care and National Care Service re-profiling".
Money will also be taken from budgets across most other Scottish Government departments.
The capital savings include delays to new college projects and housebuilding.
And the measures mean there will be £16million less for the broadband rollout to remoter parts of Scotland, while support for bus operators to upgrade their fleets to low-emission vehicles will be reduced by £29million.
But Scottish Conservative finance spokeswoman Liz Smith the global financial situation "do not absolve Mr Swinney or his colleagues of responsibility for the position Scotland finds itself in after 15 years of their government".
More huge cuts
She said Mr Swinney had announced "more huge cuts", but had not touched the budget for another independence referendum.
Labour's Daniel Johnson said "chaos" from the UK Government had made the situation more difficult.
But he also criticised the number of foreign trips taken by the Angus Robertson, the Scottish Government's external affairs secretary.
Mr Johnson said: "I note that the cabinet secretary for external affairs has travelled to eight countries in as many months, clocking up almost 22,000 air miles.
"What cost-control measures are being applied to the expenditures of members of the Government and civil servants?"
The Scottish Government will announce its budget for next year on December 15, which will include any changes it intends to make to Income Tax rates and bands.