Jackie Baillie works with the Express and BBC Scotland to confuse on A&E.
Here’s how BBC Scotland opens this story on weekly A&E changes:
The number of people seen at Scotland’s emergency departments within four hours has continued to stagnate, dropping slightly in the past week. Figures released for the week up to July 2 show 68.8% of people who went to A&E were seen and admitted or discharged within the four-hour target. The figure dropped slightly from the previous week, when it was 69%.
Remember ‘the number’ not ‘the percentage’ stagnates?
The Express has come up with ‘almost a million’ by presumably counting up all the figures over the year.
Neither have bothered to report the more meaningful monthly data trend over several months, which reveals a steady increase in attendances from 110 999 in February 2023 to 138 467 in May 2023 (the latest data) while at the same time performance improved from 69.6% seen within 4 hours in February 2023 to 70.8% seen in May 2023.
So, a very big increase in demand and yet performance in percentage terms still improved slightly.
Back to the stagnation.
69.6% of the 110 999 attending in February 2023 is 77 255 seen within 4 hours.
70.8% of the 138 467 attending in May 2023 is 98 035 seen within 4 hours, 20 780 or 27% more.
Sources:
https://www.publichealthscotland.scot/data-and-intelligence/ae-activity/#section-3-2
Talking-up Scotland 
Damn Jackie Baillie – she has earned her honorific by her continued devotion to running down OUR NHS !
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