By Professor John Robertson OBA
Many thanks to Linda at Broadcasting Scotland for alerting me to this:
From NHS planned care waiting times across the UK, as of March 2024, 8.9 patients per 100 were waiting under 52 weeks and 0.9 were waiting over 52 weeks in Scotland.
In England, the figures were 12.4 and 0.5 and in Wales, shockingly, 17.1 and 4.5.
The ONS reminds us:
Each UK country has different healthcare policies, commissioning processes and patient data systems for planned care because of the devolved healthcare system; these affect the data coverage available on referral to treatment (RTT) or stage of treatment waiting lists, and the extent to which data can be compared across the four countries.
but you can be sure that were the Scottish figures so much worse than the Welsh or English, it’d be frontpage news.
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