By Professor John Robertson OBA
From the Guardian today:
One in three child and adolescent consultant psychiatrist posts in England are vacant, according to a “shocking” analysis laying bare the workforce crisis that experts say is fuelling “unacceptable” long waits for NHS care.
BBC Scotland are not picking up on this with a view to reminding you things are bad here too>
Could this be why?
From Public Health Scotland in September 2024:
84.1% of children and young people started treatment within 18 weeks of referral, which is an increase from the 73.8% for the same quarter ending June 2023. The Scottish Government standard states that 90% of children and young people should start treatment within 18 weeks of referral to CAMHS.
4,374 children and young people started treatment at CAMHS in Scotland. This is a 7.8% increase from the 4,056 starting treatment in the previous quarter.
4,942 children and young people were waiting to start treatment at quarter ending June 2024 which is a decrease of 11.1% (615) compared to 5,557 in the previous quarter, and a decrease of 25.9% (1,725) from 6,667 waiting in the same quarter ending June 2023.
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Talking-up Scotland 'Albatraz' 
With the greatest respect John TUS keep telling us that Scotland’s NHS is the best performing of all the Uk nations and yet when Anas Sarwar at FM’s Q’s tells us we are not and Swinney fails to correct him you will forgive me when I say I am confused. Either TUS does not have the full facts., Sarwar is lying thro’ his teeth (yet again) and /or Swinney is clueless about his role as FM and how he counters this blatant distortion of the facts. Please help me understand?
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TUS in such things is seeking to refute the mendacious assertions being made by the unionists and Westminster and their media mouthpieces. The media have many more resources than Professor Robertson and, as we have seen from the outcomes of complaints to BBC Scotland, they do not give a monkey’s about truth. Their job is to convince enough Scots that they are incapable of running their own affairs.
Alasdair Macdonald
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Public Health Scotland publishes a raft of reports every Tuesday on all things related to the performance of NHS Scotland. That information is available to all.
Might be worthwhile getting into the habit of checking it out each Tuesday as Prof Robertson clearly does.
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TuS does have the full facts?
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Did you see the article in today’s Herald about a report from the Institute of Fiscal Studies on the NHS in Scotland and in England. They seem to have arrived at the conclusion that NHS Scotland is not doing well.
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Sorry, must remove before WordPress remove me. Language
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