Thanks to A.M.MacJ https://x.com/ammacj for alerting me to this:
Regulars will know what sums are coming.
On those having to pay themselves for private medical care (right-hand column above), with 1.7 times the population of Wales, Scotland might be expected to have had around 29 500 (1.7 x 17 000) such admissions, but had only 21 000.
29 500 is 40% higher than the actual 21 000.
So after a bit of Labour-rule in Scotland, we might expect a 40% surge in private care?
Source:
https://www.phin.org.uk/news/phin-private-market-update-june-2024-united-kingdom
Talking-up Scotland 
Aye, and this leads HMS James Cook’s ‘What our preferred papers say….” 🙄
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LABOUR WILL RETURN SCOTLAND TO PUNITIVE POVERTY
JUST AS THEY DID DURING PREVIOUS LABOUR DISASTROUS RULE
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This sounds like a nonsense headline without any context on how many of those thousands had personal or provision through their employer healthcare insurance. How much of that spend was a personal choice rather than utilising the SNHS. I had employer insurance for nigh on 30 yrs and used the service just once for an opp on my shoulder( capsulitis- frozen shoulder) and thereafter physio therapy.
In short, how much of that spend was through Health insurance plans provided by employers? My guess is most.
Golfnut
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Yet again a well treated employee
BUT WHAT ABOUT MILLIONS OF OTHERS!!!!!!!
OR DO YOU NOT GIVE A
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Prick.
Golfnut
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Golfnut, the table in John’s article shows the Insured and SelfPaid admissions separately, though I know you were referring to the supposed news headline
Bob Martin
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As the Labour Councillor in Dundee said just before local election, “We can’t afford to give them [sic] too much. They might stop voting for us.”
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Not if SNP Scottish gov protects it. Already mitigates Westminster cuts. In power could still be still doing it. Or else Labour will the blame of it big time.
No prescriptions, less bus passes,.no child payments, kinship payments, No social.care.
No council tax freeze. No student support, higher fees. No baby boxes, No welfare relief.
40% of revenues raised in Scotland spent by Westminster. Unlawful. No taxation without representation. Higher fuel and energy costs. Brexit loss. Nuclear funds wasted.
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Private healthcare is a waste. Much more expensive. Non deliverable for serious, long term conditions. People die because of private healthcare using up the public provision and funding.
Doctors already get £120,000 upwards. Then skylighting on public funding and provision. Not acceptable. It increases poverty, illness and death. Less regulation.
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The thing about all these people who extol the privatisation of healthcare is that they are all liars , there are no private healthcare hospitals in Scotland that can do all the operations that NHS Scotland does , in fact this scandal is further emphasized by NHS Scotland and the NHS in the rest of UK allowing their doctors and surgeons and their teams of backup anesthatists and nurses etc to work for private healthcare businesses AND do these private healthcare operations in our NHS hospitals using our NHS equipment , this diabolical situation causes NHS patients at the top of the NHS waiting list to be pushed back whilst these NHS doctors and surgeons collect pay from their other private healthcare employer therebye pushing an NHS patient out of the way to let a private healthcare patient jump the queue.When Scotland becomes an independent country we give these doctors and surgeons a good pay and tell them if you work for us you do not work for anyone else and you certainly will not be able to perform private healthcare patient operations in our NHS hospitals.
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Maybe the private sector should have to pay the NHS for any patient referral (ie from them to the NHS). The fee should include all staff costs, use of equipment etc – and extra for the expertise involved in either performing an operation the private medics couldn’t or, worse still, repairing any botches.
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