Prepare yourself for Audit Scotland picking grudgingly and context-free at the best NHS in the UK on Reporting Scotland Down tomorrow

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  1. Whilst on the subject of the NHS:

    Source: Royal College of Emergency Medicine (November 21, 2024) Welsh Emergency Departments feeling the ‘cold shoulder’ this winter – Emergency Medicine clinicians in Wales feel like they are getting the cold shoulder from the Welsh Government as the weather worsens and their concerns about patient safety grow‘.

    (https://rcem.ac.uk/welsh-emergency-departments-feeling-the-cold-shoulder-this-winter/ )

    For the month of October 2024, the RCEM’s assessment of the official NHS Wales performance statistics for the main Emergency Departments finds this:

    ’43.5% of patients (29,924) waited four hours or longer in an A&E to be seen, admitted, discharged or transferred, an increase of 7.9% from last month (27,733)’ – i.e. 56.5% met the 4 hour standard

    ‘nearly one in four patients (16,082) waited eight hours or longer’ – I.e. c.25% waited 8 hours or more

    ‘one in seven people (10,085) waited 12 hours or more in Emergency Departments in Wales’ – I.e. c.14% waited 12 hours or more

    Meanwhile, for Emergency Departments in NHS Scotland, here is a summary of the latest data (for September 2024) from Public Health Scotland:

    63% met 4 hour standard

    12.1% patients spent more than 8 hours

    5.4% of patients spent more than 12 hours in an ED.

    The difference in performance is substantial – and has been for ages. But there is another big difference: the much better NHS Scotland figures are framed by British Labour Party politicians and their friendly media as indicative of ‘crisis’ – and it’s all the fault of that bad SNP. The situation in NHS Wales?

    In Wales the Labour narrative is different. The problems in NHS Wales derive from Westminster governments’ austerity, with under-investment in NHS England having dire consequences for resourcing public services in Wales; the global pandemic; high rates of inflation.

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