By Professor John Robertson OBA
From Public Health Scotland, the above graph illustrating the long-term trends in increasing numbers of planned operations being carried (bold black dotted line) out on time (24 000 per month), and only around 2% having to be cancelled (thin grey solid line) due to ‘non clinical / capacity reasons’, meaning unexpected staff illnesses or overload on operating theatres caused by, for example, industrial or road traffic accidents or infection outbreaks in larger institutions with large numbers of unexpected patients at serious risk.
That 98% of thousands of planned operations in an organisation as large and complex as NHS Scotland, consistently go ahead, month after month, year after year, despite a continuing and steady rate of increase, is frankly remarkable and praiseworthy.
Our MSM never do so.
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