From BBC Wales today:
“We are not getting a true reflection of what is exactly happening on the shop floor,” said Dr Suresh Pillai, vice president of RCEM for Wales.
“This year alone from January to June, they have excluded about 45,000 patients and that’s a huge number.
“If you don’t factor those patients in the already overcrowded emergency department, we cannot measure how bad things are.
“If you don’t get the true figures, then the perception would be ‘everything is fine’. In fact, it is not.”
Dr Pillai said the issue had routinely been raised during meetings with the health minister and officials.
FOI responses to the RCEM show that in the first six months of this year, 38.7% of patients in Wales waited longer than four hours in A&E departments.
When breach exemptions were included, as they were in other parts of the UK, the figure was 50%.
That’s more than 45,000 patients – or 12% – removed from the figures.
From January 2021 to June this year, more than 670,000 patients were not included in published figures – 23% of the total.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-67056279
In more than one thousand words, the writer does not find space to mention ‘Labour.’
In the same period, from January to June, the Scottish figure for full emergency departments (ED) was between 67% and 69% treated within 4 hours.
https://www.publichealthscotland.scot/data-and-intelligence/ae-activity/#section-3-2
NHS Scotland’s performance was thus around 36% better.
Imagine the reaction in Scotland had this happened here.
Talking-up Scotland 'Albatraz' 
The Anglo media operating here in Scotland are fully on board with publishing lies so will have no problem with this when it suits their political agenda.
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I note that the ”Labour” Health Secretary for Wales is a Baroness – is this a requirement under The People’s Party ?
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Should make for an interesting FM’s Q’s but I guess Starwars and Baillie might just have an urgent meeting elsewhere that day!!
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How differently would this read if these were Scottish figures? For beginners, the headline would go something like this: SNP Scottish government fails the NHS again with disgraceful A&E waiting times. The Health Secretary must go! Time for Humza Yousaf to step down.
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“In more than one thousand words, the writer does not find space to mention ‘Labour.’ – Yes, well, given Jenny Rees’s journalistic history https://muckrack.com/jenny-rees/articles perhaps that is understandable.
What bugs me most is why Jenny should be pursuing a more equal comparison of Welsh waiting times to England, when England’s figures have long been considered the least trustworthy of all the figures after being boil-washed by a succession of distinctly shady Tories…
It smells of Eau de Latrine, made in London…
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Strange isn’t it when the medical profession in Wales were saying they had raised this issue many many times in the past with the Welsh Health secretary the BBC doing their very best to try and deflect damage to their Labour chums by not even calling for her head but instead the Government saying the Health Trusts must be more transparent!!!! . The sheer gall of it.
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Did the BBC EVER report that the same Royal College of Emergency Medicine (RCEM) had called the NHS England method of recording 12 hour waits in A&E as ‘fundamentally dishonest’ because it measured time from a decision to admit NOT from time of arrival as in Scotland? Anyone?
See https://talkingupscotlandtwo.com/2023/04/14/finally-nhs-england-sorts-dishonest-reporting-of-long-ae-waits-revealing-much-better-performance-by-nhs-scotland/
Which NHS and which responsible government gets most negative coverage from the BBC and the corporate media? (Radio 4’s Today programme was at it again this morning during an interview with Keith Brown MSP.)
Which government’s opposition is most vocal in berating its NHS?
Which government’s political opponents gets most support from the media to amplify their recurring cries of ‘shameful/crisis/demand for resignation’ etc. over NHS matters?
The best performing NHS, the one in Scotland! And the responsible SNP government – of course!
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