BBC Scotland is headlining a single case of a delayed discharge but what is the situation more widely?
You’d be forgiven for thinking there was some kind of crisis, based on media reporting. Even I though it might be a really quite big problem.
Imagine my surprise when I had a look at Delayed discharges in NHSScotland annual
Annual summary of occupied bed days and census figures – data to March 2023:
Of 541 747 cases in Scotland in 2022/2023, only 3% were delayed. It’s been 3% since records began in 2016/2017 other than in 2019/2020, when it was 4% of a greater number – 633 385.
Yeh, yeh, but that’s a picture of the ‘troubled’ New Southern General you have there. I bet it’s worse in Greater Glasgow and Clyde!
Of 138 955 cases, only 3% delayed.
Source:
Data files
Talking-up Scotland 
Thanks John for all your awesome work over the last year and would be great to know your stats and how your daily emails have grown in audience….many, many thanks for all your great work
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Thanks Anon.
While I do get near 11K on twitter, TuS rarely attracts more than 2K per day!
Keep sharing
John
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Yes I’m not surprised , the big story is who is this doctor from Skye living in the back of her van , that’s the story right there we need to know more about her about her circumstances and why she is doing this but we never will because as usual these people are planted by the BBC propaganda unit to give a bad story about Scotland .
I would love to get the key to the safe that contains the list of under cover agents that the BBC in Scotland have and use to bolster their propaganda stories.
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Brilliant work, John!
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I like it when a BBC Scotland, SNP bad story backfires spectacularly!
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Your info is always based on reliable data. As much as possible I repost or send to non X folk. Thanks for all your hard work. UK media not interested in accurate data. Preserving the union is all they are doing.
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This is the media’s love for the BIG NUMBER without any context. And, if they cannot get a big enough number than they aggregate over a number of years.
Your figure for discharges from QEUH is a BIG NUMBER, but when you take the percentage who are delayed, the delayed discharges are an average of 11 per day – not so big a number. We could go further and explore how long a ‘delay’ is. I imagine some are a few hours and, most 1 or 2 days.
And this is where the other media ruse comes in. They get Anas Sarwar to get a single person to tell a ‘horror’ story, with no accompanying context.
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