country. You know, England, Wales, Northern Ireland and Scotland.
On Channel 5’s Storm Huntley show this morning, Henry Bonsu ‘broadcaster’ [Modern Languages at Magdalen College, Oxford University] makes the above claim for the UK as a whole. That last bit suggests he’s looked into this in some detail.
He’s not the first nor I suppose the last to assume that what he knows about NHS England must just be the same elsewhere in the UK.
He doesn’t.
Here are the facts:
As of March 2024, from Interweave Healthcare, NHS Scotland had a bed for every 403 people whereas for NHS England it was 433.
https://www.interweavetextiles.com/how-many-hospital-beds-uk/
So, Henry, there are your required 30 more beds in Scottish hospitals and not in English ones.
Talking-up Scotland 'Albatraz' 
Please spare a thought for Bonsu’s Oxford education, his lack of perspective is built into the fees and and ‘English’ upbringing, his lack of context is not deliberate.
By contrast, Scotland has had a Glasgow Uni MA graduate and Forfar Academy leaver bullshitting their way as a career choice on a regular and repetitive basis for over a decade now on behalf of a purported ‘impartial’ BBC in Scotland..
Henry can learn, neither Sarah nor James have any desire to do so because their salaries depend on it….
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I’ve long since come to the conclusion that in Anglo-Brit commentary, “Britain” stands only for the area conquered by the Romans.
Scotland, which resisted, is exiled to their outer darkness, as our very existence is a permanent embarrassment to them.
Nonsense of course for a supposed educated, intelligent people, but that’s how it is.
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