The SNP are hypocrites. Under the SNP, the amount given to the private sector for treating NHS patients is on the rise, having grown by 30% since 2018.

My priority is cutting waiting times. I won’t allow poorer people to be priced out of faster care.https://t.co/fnL3ujX5VB

— Wes Streeting (@wesstreeting) June 13, 2024

By Mr Robertson, P7, Room 17, 1983

Wes Streeting, Labour Shadowy Health Secretary, two days ago, illustrating well the dangers of de-contextualised percentage figures, which my classes of 11 year-olds managed to understand but sadly, it seems, some older Scottish voters don’t and may vote Labour because of that thickness. Just for info, I taught the 11 year-olds to ask, ‘Yes, but 30% of what?‘

While, I’m on thickness, the 30% appeared with sources, for the Scottish data, in the Daily Record.

NHS Consultant, Dan Goyal, replied:

Scotland has spent £31m on private providers last year out of a £17bn NHS budget, or about 0.2% England spent around £12bn out of a budget of £163bn on private providers, or about 7%

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Our friend and regular feeder, AR, alerted me to the above.

When I checked for the up-to-date NHS England data, it’s now 9%!

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9% is 45 times 0.2%.