BBC UK reveal that Matheson has been responsible for ambulances responding 4 TIMES faster on average than in England

Scottish Health Secretary, Michael Matheson

Thanks to an inadvertent slip by BBC UK via their How long do patients wait for an ambulance? app today, we can confirm that the average waiting time for a Scottish ambulance is 8 min and 46 secs: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-59549800

Also, from BBC UK on 14 December 2023:

Average response times of more than 38 minutes for category two emergency calls such as heart attacks and strokes – above the target time of 18 minutes

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-67714151

Yes, I know the English figures are only for Category 2 emergency calls such as heart attacks and strokes and we can’t see if the Scottish figures are for the same or for all categories, but if they were for all categories including the less serious ones, that would make the Scottish average even more impressive!

I did expect not to find Scottish postcodes in the app, as is the case for Wales and Northern Ireland. Let’s see if BBC Scotland manage to get them removed after they see this.

8 thoughts on “BBC UK reveal that Matheson has been responsible for ambulances responding 4 TIMES faster on average than in England”

  1. Sorry about this O/T both in the Tory P@J

    How the Big Stick, spy balloons and Thurso played a key role in the Cold War.

    The Lord Lieutenant’s new clothes: He spent more on uniform than you’ll pay to heat your home this year
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    The SNP took power in Aberdeen promising to help with the cost of living. Then their Lord Lieutenant spent thousands on a new uniform.

    These are both under the pay wall.

    The first one has a paragraph where it states that Scotland would be the first to be under attack and this would give the US time to set things up.

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    1. Yes, Scotland is expendable. Greater love hath no country than that it would lay down its life for posh people in the ‘HOME’ Counties in another country. As General Wolf said of the Scots attacking Montreal via the Heights of Abraham: “It will be no great loss if they fail” This is why we are BETTER TOGETHER.

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  2. Ah but, that’s only ON AVERAGE. Some Scottish waiting times will be longer than some English waiting times. So, youse Jocks urnae better at a’! Yese ur wurser.

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      1. Definitely anon thinks we are so damn daft as to not see how they are attempting to add snippets of what they PRETEND are facts, while LYING in the comments, with the most bizarre PRETENDY Scottish dialect ever written, though maybe they are, Geordie? Lol.

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