UK Government figures reveal that NHS Scotland performs significantly better than NHS England because it has 21% more staff after 17 years of SNP rule

By Professor John Robertson OBA

From The healthcare workforce across the UK: 2024 A summary of the cross-UK comparability of official direct NHS employment statistics and other relevant data sources, including non-official data, on specific healthcare professionals across the UK, published by the ONS on 6 March 2024, the following data on staffing at the end of 2023:

NHS England – 1 308 825.

With one tenth, or 10%, of the population, all things being equal, we might expect NHS Scotland to have around 131 000.

However, it had 158 375, 27 375 or 20.8% more staff

Source: https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/healthandsocialcare/healthcaresystem/articles/thehealthcareworkforceacrosstheuk/2024

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