From BBC Scotland in 2016:
Commenting on the statistics, Scottish Labour’s health spokesman Anas Sarwar said that Health Secretary Shona Robison needed to “get a grip of the growing NHS winter crisis”. “These figures show that A&E performance across Scotland is getting worse. The fact that one quarter of A&E patients at the £850m Queen Elizabeth University Hospital aren’t seen within four hours is unacceptable.
“These figures are yet more evidence that the SNP’s decision to allow the closure of the minor injuries unit at Yorkhill Hospital is senseless, reckless and ultimately dangerous.” The Scottish Liberal Democrats said the waiting times recorded at the hospital were “intolerable”.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-38380488
In the same year, BBC Wales reports never gave the opposition a platform to attack the Welsh Labour Government.
What’s unusual about the BBC Scotland reporting?
In October 2014, NHS Scotland A&E departments saw 91.8% of patients within 4 hours against the target of 95%. In England the figure 90.6%.
From 2014, perhaps before, Scotland’s media have fed upon the figures and used them as the basis for criticism of the SNP in Government.
However, research for the UK in the same month revealed a very different approach to the use of full A&E waiting time data in Australia (Victoria), Ontario (Canada), Netherlands, Germany, Sweden and Arkansas (USA).
In the UK, the target was 95% in 4 hours, in Victoria it was only 75%, in Sweden it was 79%, in Ontario 90% and elsewhere they had no target at all.
In the UK A&E departments required a consultant on duty 24/7, in Victoria it was only 16/7, in Arkansas they were on call and the others had no such requirement.
The research also revealed that many countries report performance but few meet the stated target and that, in many, there just aren’t consultants available.
Source:
Talking-up Scotland 
Hey , Rishi , we want an explanation ,
Why England is failing to meet its A&E target
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It’s the Scottish NHS making them look bad
Otherwise, they are “world-class”.
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The characteristics of BBC (and most mainstream media) coverage of NHS Scotland’s performance – as noted in the above blog post tends to be replicated by media treatment of Scotland’s other public services.
Context, perspective, comparative assessments – either across the UK (except where unfavourable to Scotland) or Internationally – are mostly absent. Negative frames, notably on certain key issues like health, education, drug deaths, transport etc., are repeated ad nauseam: repetition is a crucial tactic for influencing public sentiment! It’s as if – uniquely in Scotland – public policies are either 100% crap or 100% perfect, and it can never (of course) be the latter!
There is little attempt to ‘educate’ or ‘inform’ in a balanced, objective manner the electorate about undoubtedly difficult choices and inevitable trade-offs, especially so for a nation and its government with such restricted powers. And add in ‘bias by omission’ which does the job of limiting any undue risk of a growing national self-confidence. And it assists in dampening down momentum in support for a pro-independence political party.
And it’s not partisan party politics behind all this as for example the often cosy relationship between Labour in Scotland and the Tories in Scotland reveals. Nor is it about the performance of a devolved government as the contrasting styles of BBC coverage of similar issues in Scotland and Wales reveals.
No, there is another and a unifying rationale – an underlying reason for doing – at play here. It is to bring focus to attacks on a pro-independence Scottish Government and by gaslighting Scotland not just undermine the electoral prospects of the present party of government but alongside this, seek to undermine the self-confidence of the Scottish electorate in our nation’s capacity/capability to strive for a better future through the agency that independence will bring.
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Context is not allowed for Scotland. The irony is Unionists are quick to point out they are not interested in what happens across the border (big belly laugh) they are only interested in Scottish statistics. That usually means the English ones (which these same Unionists would wish upon us) are usually worse.
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”Scottish Labour’s Health spokesman , Anas Sarwar ..’
When did being the country’s most notorious Ambulance-Chaser qualify Sarwar as a ”Health ” spokesman – or even a Branch spokesman ?
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Like father like son!!!
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Good Moring O/T
UK ministers unable to prove £259bn on procurement was spent wisely
Damning report by MPs urges departments to ensure more ‘robust’ competition for contracts.
This report was in the FT worth a read if you can not seen in Tory papers
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Note: BBC in Scotland is not…….I repeat NOT…….a public service broadcaster……
It is and always will be a propaganda station for Wasteminster and it’s colonial
agenda…………Keeping the damn Scots down!!!
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