As ‘Quademic’ looms NHS Scotland has 37% more beds, 33% more nurses, 27% more GPs and cleaner hospitals

Professor John Robertson OBA

On BBC Breakfast, this morning, we hear that a ‘Quademic‘ is looming in England’s hospitals as cases of Flu, Covid, Norovirus and RSV and that out of 100 000 beds, 95 000 are already occupied.

BBC Scotland does not have this story. Perhaps that’s because:

First, there are 13 695 hospital beds in Scotland, 3 695 more than you’d expect, per head, more than a third more.1

Second, there are 12 nurses per 1 000 people in Scotland but only 9 in the UK.2

Third, Scotland has 27.3% more GPs than England.3,4

Fourth, cleaner hospitals as evidenced by far lower hospital-acquired Covid cases. Independent sources collect in this.5

Sources:

  1. https://publichealthscotland.scot/publications/acute-hospital-activity-and-nhs-beds-information-annual/acute-hospital-activity-and-nhs-beds-information-annual-annual-year-ending-31-march-2023/#:~:text=Bed%20numbers%20and%20percentage%20occupancy,88.1%25%20in%202022/23.
  2. https://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/politics/uk-fewer-nurses-per-head-33961132
  3. https://www.theguardian.com/society/article/2024/sep/04/nhs-faces-tipping-point-in-england-where-most-appointments-will-not-be-with-gps
  4. https://turasdata.nes.nhs.scot/media/v00by43i/2023_gp_workforce_survey_report.html#:~:text=Information%20from%202012%20to%202023,2023%2C%20equivalent%20to%203%2C478.4%20WTE
  5. https://talkingupscotlandtwo.com/2021/11/17/why-99-5-of-new-covid-cases-were-not-caught-in-scotlands-clean-hospitals/

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6 thoughts on “As ‘Quademic’ looms NHS Scotland has 37% more beds, 33% more nurses, 27% more GPs and cleaner hospitals”

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