From Public Health Scotland, today:
In the quarter ending December 2023, there were 20,837 operations planned to take place across NHS Scotland. Only 515 (2.5%) were cancelled by the hospital due to capacity or non-clinical reasons.
From Public Health Scotland a year ago:
In the quarter ending December 2022, the total number of planned operations across NHS Scotland during December 2022 was 17,269. This represents a decrease of 19.1% from 21,336 in November 2022 but is 14.6% higher than the number planned in December 2021. 493 (2.9%) were cancelled by the hospital due to capacity or non-clinical reasons.
From these data, we can say:
- Far more operations were carried out at the end of 2023, than were carried out at the end of 2022.
- Despite that, a smaller percentage, 2.5% as opposed to 2.9%, had to be cancelled due to shortages of staff or other capacity shortages.
- For years now, NHS Scotland meets around 97%-98% of its commitments to operate on time. This is a fantastic achievement for a huge organisation undertaking around a quarter of a million operations every year on 105 sites with 181 000 staff. To get any better, they’d need lots of surplus staff and theatres then be accused of wasting taxpayer’s money.
Sources:
Talking-up Scotland 'Albatraz' 
You’re article on NHS Scotland’s success in completing so many planned operations, reminded me of another fantastic achievement and success story which was announced in September 2023.
https://www.nhsgoldenjubilee.co.uk/news/press-releases/2023/organ-and-tissue-donation-week-scotland-reaches-500th-heart-transplant-milestone
“The team at NHS Golden Jubilee’s Scottish National Advanced Heart Failure Service (SNAHFS) are celebrating this Organ Donation Week after hitting the historic milestone of the 500th Scottish Heart Transplant.
After carrying out a record number of 40 heart transplants in Scotland in a single year last year (2022/23), the team have marked this next major milestone in cardiac treatment for patients in Scotland.”
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OT but in similar spirits, HMS James Cook takes propaganda ops 100% of the time.
‘ “Scottish budget plan ‘misleading’, says IFS think tank ‘ is the Gong Hunter’s latest to get the Comments Open treatment, 505 accumulated at the time of writing – Article purportedly 7 hours old, earliest comment 5 hours old, Analanalysis by David Wallet Locked Hard https://archive.ph/jHpZN
The only other article with comments open appears to be his “Scottish Water could hike prices further, boss says” from yesterday ca 11.00, earliest comment 14.37 yesterday and still kept open 24+ hours later having only accumulated 349 comments… Funnily, I thought this article had been published earlier.
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