14.52 times more, per head of population, waiting longer than 18 weeks in England than in Scotland.
Evidence below
The ultimate humiliation for the Labour Party in the UK as it completely messes up NHS Wales, so bad that an English Tory Health Secretary offers top help them out:
The UK government has said it wants to work with the Welsh government to help reduce NHS waiting times. UK Health Secretary Steve Barclay has invited Welsh and Scottish ministers to discuss how to “get patients seen more quickly”. He said he would be “open to requests” for Welsh and Scottish patients who were “waiting lengthy periods” to be treated in England.
The Welsh government declined to respond directly to the offer of talks. Welsh ministers previously said long waiting list times were “falling every month in Wales”. The health service in Wales is run by the Welsh government but some NHS patients travel to England for treatment.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-66488586
The Welsh government declined to respond?
The Scottish Health secretary had to wait nearly 30 minutes for a prescription for sore ribs.
BBC Scotland have not covered this.
Could this be why:
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
Despite the government’s commitment to cut extremely long waits, with a target to eliminate NHS waits of over 18 months entirely by April 2023, the number of patients waiting at least 18 months rose from 48 961 in November 2022 to 54 882 in December. Overall in England 7.2 million patients await treatment.https://www.bmj.com/content/380/bmj.p332
All things being equal, in the same month, 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.
The UK Government and NHS England have been sneaky again, as they did when they began restarting the clock for A&E patients, after they had been triaged.
They knew how the media feasted on stories of patients waiting more than two years and regardless of the seriousness of the cases, threw money at them, rushing them through private hospitals and at the expense of other targets.
Source:
Why will not one media health correspondent in Scotland report this?
Or this
Released by NHS England, under pressure from the RCEM, after years of publishing data underplaying the extent of 12 hour delays in A&E, this now reveals the data from the time the patient arrives in the A&E, as opposed to time from a decision to admit as was case under old measure.:
Of all the total attendances in February 2023, 126,000 waited more than 12 hours from arrival
at A&E (10.6%)https://www.england.nhs.uk/statistics/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/04/ECDS-Supplementary-Analysis-Statistical-commentary-Feb-2023.pdf
From Public Health Scotland for the same period using the counting procedure only now used by NHS England:
4,751 (4.4%) patients spent more than 12 hours in an A&E department.https://www.publichealthscotland.scot/publications/ae-activity-and-waiting-times/ae-activity-and-waiting-times-month-ending-28-february-2023/
England has 10 times the population so, all things being equal, might be expected to have had 48 000 waiting more than 12 hours. It had 126 000, nearly 3 times more.
Talking-up Scotland 'Albatraz' 
Radio 5 is this morning reporting that Steve Barclay has also offered to meet with Scotlands Health Secretary do discuss working together to cut waiting times in the ‘ devolved regions ‘.
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As if the EngGov Tories have one atom of an interest in protecting the NHS, absolutely laughable when the funding of the peoples’ health service, which they pay for, is being cut to the point of bleeding to death, by the Tories.
It’s like cutting someone’s leg off for no reason, then telling them, we’ll help you not to bleed to death, and get a prosthetic one, and to keep the other leg, because we is so lovely, caring and supportive, kick kick kick. Mwhahaha!!
Here in the nation of Scotland, the SNHS is being protected by a competent, democratically elected government, who see the benefits oflooking after their population’s health and well being.
The English government are privatising the English NHS right under the noses of the people, it’s been planned for decades, something they are good at, planning to strip away public services, leaving only a skeleton service, if lucky.
Scotland needs to escape before it’s too late, our nation’s health and wellbeing is in great peril while shackled to the nation of England, where their ‘regions’ are incredibly economically unequal, and their health and wellbeing is the last thing on their Tory govs’ minds.
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What a joke. Barclay cannot even reduce the waiting lists in England. He is responsible. Billions on the waiting list. What a total absolute idiot. Beyond belief. He expects to Scottish and Welsh administration to fund private healthcare in the rest of the UK. He is a public disgrace and a total loser.
He has spent £Billions wasted not covering the NHS and Healthcare. Underfunded by the Tories, him, for years. The Tories spending £1000Billion and they cannot fund a proper healthcare system. A bunch of total malignant incompetents. They will be gone.
It just beyond belief what these glue pots do before they go. The absolute nonsense they come out with trying to dodge the buck. Stops there. How much more damage can they do before they go. Thankfully soon. Just an absolute insult.
Wasted £Billions because of the NHS strikes in England which would have funded the NHS. A absolute lowlife.
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Millions waiting for healthcare in England Barclay is responsible. Clear up his own mess. The Tories mess. They are responsible. Underfunding healthcare for years. Barclay is an absolute joke. A total incompetent.
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“Why will not one media health correspondent in Scotland report this?” – because they only publish briefing notes issued from Elizabeth House in Edinburgh which is replete with hacks paid to churn out propaganda.
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The Herald/Sunday Herald seems to be running a story about the increasing number of patients who have died within 24 hrs of a ‘long wait’ in A&E. Have not read it yet but presumably they were getting treatment during that ‘long wait’.
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Is this a case of , re Scotland, of Steve Barclay as England’s Heath Secretary, one who is the ‘blind (pretending to ) lead the one who is NOT blind (Scotland’s Health service)’ in acting out this very public farcical fantasy episode which is then meant to give the impression that somehow the Health service he is in charge of is coping and being run efficiently while others, like ours, is NOT.
It was reported in 2022 that those patients in England with eating disorders were having to be sent to Scotland because of a shortage of beds and too some patients from Wales also ….so who is it , in the UK, who really needs help via their NHS ?
In 2022 it was also reported that according to the editor of the Health Service Journal “never has a politician arrived in the post of health secretary trailing a worse reputation among NHS leaders”……as in the same Steve Barclay who is currently deflecting from THAT apt description in this recent ridiculous and unwarranted fake invitation to Scottish ministers…..
I am sure many doctors (non partisan ones) both here and elsewhere will be aghast at the audacity of this latest political ploy by this Tory Health Secretary to play politics at the expense of others while also deflecting from the mess and underfunding by his party re their NHS in England…..while the public are once again ‘caught in the cross fire’ of yet another Tory generated fantasy to try and give the impression that they, the UK government, are the ones who are successful at the “day job” while others are not….when the evidence via stats and too the lived experience of those same members of the public and too those professionals who work in the NHS in England have a very different story to tell……from the one that Mr Steve Barclay the Heath Secretary (in title only) for England relates as the supposed accurate position and state of the English NHS….. via this current NON and fabricated ‘olive branch’ to our ministers in Scotland…..Labour here will of course ( and their client media) ONLY focus negatively upon the supposed contrived ‘invitation’ with which they will concur as being ‘needed’ for our Heath minister…..while simultanously defending their Labour Welsh Heath minister and Labour government in Wales.
It’s all just a game to the Tories and also with the Labour party while we the public are ultimately the losers who must witness them playing politics constantly…..
Pity too that the media are so complicit and involved in playing these same games also….which also sees us, the public, lose out in them failing to report the truth and too the facts….the UK in a nutshell really…via both it’s politics and it’s so called media (in name only) .
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The thing is , this proves that not only are Westminster MP,s and political party,s telling lies the journalists are doing it too , these journalists know that what Barclay is saying is nonsense and yet they publish it , they cannot claim to just be partisan to a political view they are showing that they are misleading the public intentionally.
That is a crime it’s dangerous and puts the public at risk .
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Gaslighting at its worse or best dependent of course on the direction your moral compass is pointing. Clever, this will get lots of airtime and the SG will be hounded on this issue.
English Tory’s campaigning on behalf Eng!ish labour in Scotland.
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The Tories are desperate for any diversion to show themselves in a favourable light – With doctors the latest on strike with full public support, cue Barclay and another steaming turd.
Contrary to your take on Labour embarrassment, it really isn’t a matter of who is charge politically, the NHS is struggling everywhere, as are all public services for the sake of finance and personnel, although the prospect of Kid Starver promising more of the same is by far the greater embarrassment.
– I dread to think how many specialists, doctors and nurses have finally given up on a career in the UK over the last decade, which with a depleting number studying medicine will only exacerbate the problem further – It takes how many years from commencing studies to become a doctor or nurse ?
I recall reading an article on a health trust in England some weeks ago, where it was laid bare that servicing debt was greatest burdens on the Trust’s budget
– Yet Barclay glibly offers to “help out” devolved governments by having a chat.
Bridge for sale……..
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I can imagine the hysterical outbursts from Englands’ tabloids such as the Telegraph if Scotland were to accept their offer.
“Scottish scroungers taking up bed space in hospitals to the exclusion of hard working English taxpayers”.
Barclay’s statement about having a common approach to solving these problems is all part of the Tory “one nation” narrative which is entirely political and nothing whatsoever to do with improving health outcomes.
Does the private sector in England have the capacity to undertake this additional work?
England’s public sector certainly doesn’t.
Perhaps the Scottish government should call his bluff and agree to send thousands of patients south of the border for treatment.
At least the blame would then lie exactly where it belongs.
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All except the last – Playing politics with peoples’ health is best left to the Tories….
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