ACH (Write your own acronym – a complete….) is getting heavy media coverage with his call for weekly reporting of ambulance waiting times given the titchy size of his party. Shouldn’t the Greens have a bigger presence?

Anyhow, it seems that his boss Sir Ed Davey is not calling for the same from NHS England where they are only prepared to make them up monthly despite them having been ‘off the scale’ according to BBC UK.

Was ACH prompted by one of the two opposition leaders he’s keen to ally with, Douglas Ross, based on a typically dyscalculic report from the Herald claiming the average was six hours.

https://www.heraldscotland.com/news/19569124.scottish-ambulance-service-major-incident-call-patients-wait-six-hours-admitted/

With this schoolboy howler he went for the FM last month in Holyrood. It turns out that the average in the first week of September was 9 minutes.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-58519296

What would the purpose of weekly data be? Does ACH want people to think more carefully before calling 999? Does he just want a weekly opportunity to say something? Did a reporter beg him to do it? Does he have a Higher Maths?

Getting back to Sir Ed, you’d think he’d be on this given the crisis in his Surrey base:

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