From Public Health Scotland today:

During April 2024, there were 23,482 operations planned to take place across NHSScotland. This is 18.4% higher than the number planned a year previously in April 2023 (19,840)…(only) 426 (1.8%) were cancelled by the hospital due to capacity or non-clinical reasons.

This is frankly astonishing performance in a institution carrying out around one-quarter of a million ops, with 182 000 staff across 35 hospital

https://www.publichealthscotland.scot/publications/cancelled-planned-operations/cancelled-planned-operations-month-ending-30-april-2024

Does the SNP get the credit after 17 years? If the news was bad, they would.