The Scotsman and the Express are headlining supposed failure as 1 year waits for treatment fall by ‘only’ 16% in less than a year.
They are, of course, ignoring this data covered here in March 2023:
From the BMJ on February 10 2023:
More than three million patients waited longer than 18 weeks for treatment in England in December, the highest number on record, show data for the NHS in England. In November 2022 a total of 2 902 274 waited 18 weeks or longer, and in December this figure rose to 3 051 661, the data on referral to treatment times show.1
All things being equal, in December 2022, you’d expect Scotland to have 305 000 but in fact it had only 20 448 waiting over 18 weeks.
14.52 times more, per head of population, waiting longer than 18 weeks in England than in Scotland
Source:
Why has not one media health correspondent in Scotland reported this?
Talking-up Scotland 
Hootsmon and Daily Supress–leading agitprop outlets for Brit Nattery, scare-stories and outright lying guff.
Context, perspective, balance? Name your sources? Collaboration?
Utterly alien concepts to these yellow-page chip wrappers and their editors, “journalists” and commentariat.
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