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By Professor John Robertson OBA, former Faculty Research Ethics Chair, UWS

Today, NHS England’s performance data come in and the omens, judging by the media attention, are bad. I’ll do a direct comparison later.

For the moment, a reminder of the numerous sets of figures showing NHS Scotland to be well ahead of the others in the UK in terms of waiting times, other than, of course, the 2 year list for non-life-threatening conditions which Boris John threw millions at the private sector to reduce, largely for PR reasons.

1. FIVE TIMES as many wait more than 12 hours in two English A&E departments than in Glasgow as 57% of NHS England hospitals fail to declare critical incidents despite ‘out-of-control waiting times

FIVE TIMES as many wait more than 12 hours in two English A&E departments than in Glasgow as 57% of NHS England hospitals fail to declare critical incidents despite ‘out-of-control waiting times

2. Cancer waiting times – UK Government figures reveal that NHS Scotland performs significantly better than NHS England and shockingly better than NHS Wales and Northern Ireland

Cancer waiting times – UK Government figures reveal that NHS Scotland performs significantly better than NHS England and shockingly better than NHS Wales and Northern Ireland

3. Factcheck – Full emergency waiting times are significantly shorter in Scotland unless you fake the figures like the Times

Factcheck – Full emergency waiting times are significantly shorter in Scotland unless you fake the figures like the Times

4. Massive surge in patients waiting more than 12 hours in NHS England A&E after 6 months of Labour-rule

Massive surge in patients waiting more than 12 hours in NHS England A&E after 6 months of Labour-rule

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