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By Professor John Robertson OBA, former Faculty Research Ethics Chair, UWS and Scotland’s only half-decent Health Correspondent
Thanks to Dottie for alerting me to this.
How quickly have we travelled from the days when corridor care was the most unacceptable face and the clearest evidence of an NHS in Crisis?
NHS Sussex is also in the news today for this:
Will they also appoint Police Liaison Staff as suspicious deaths become normalised?
Has the Labour Health Secretary been informed of ‘the new normal‘ in his patch? He seems to be coming around to it. In the Mirror last week:
Wes Streeting admits NHS ‘corridor care’ won’t be fixed by Christmas
Does Jackie Baillie know what is happening?
In the Daily Record, 3 days ago:
Scottish Labour’s Health and Social Care Spokesperson Jackie Baillie said: “When there is no safe way to leave hospital, it’s no wonder that wards are filled to bursting. This intervention will create the breathing space needed to deliver a sustainable path between health and social care. “It will free up hospital beds and tackle the scandal of corridor care where patients wait eight hours or more to be seen.
Nope, it’s still bad. Someone tell her it’s been changed.
Mind you, it won’t matter as bed-blocking is far less common in Scotland and there’s no real evidence of corridor care.
And:
Sources:
https://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/politics/scottish-labour-pledges-tackle-corridor-34726885
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On the NHS elsewhere, in places, where – unless Dame Jackie Baillie MSP of the British Labour Party knows otherwise – the party of government she claims is uniquely responsible for bad NHS performance, i.e. that bad SNP, has had zero influence.
From the Royal College of Emergency Medicine (RCEM) on February 25: ‘Worst’ A&E data on record must galvanise NI government to act’.
‘Northern Ireland’s Emergency Departments are under massive strain as new data revealed 2024 saw the country’s worst year, quarter and month ever recorded for A&E performance.‘ (my emphasis)
‘The new data released today (25 February 2025) by the Department of Health shows that more people than ever before had to endure a wait of 12 hours or more in one of the country’s A&Es in 2024 despite fewer people attending.
‘And when analysing the full year, the data shows 2024 was the worst year on record for A&E performance; the months October to December were the worst quarter on record; and December was the worst month.’
‘The quarterly data which covers 1 October 2024 to 31 December 2024 also showed:
And on February 20, the RCEM issued a statement on the NHS in Labour-run Wales. It included this: ‘Patients, clinicians, and politicians’ united calls to improve urgent and emergency care in Wales must be heeded by the Senedd as the latest data reveals more people waited more than 12 hours in the country’s Emergency Departments last month than ever before.’
On February 13, the RCEM issued a statement with this: ‘Heath leaders must act to reduce dangerous and unacceptable 12-hour pre-admission A&E stays as new data reveals last month saw the highest number of these types of waits ever recorded.’ It was referring to the NHS in Labour-run England.
Something more than the British Labour Party in Scotland’s ‘SNPbad’ analysis must account for ALL this.
It’s not too late for BBC Scotland, The Herald, the Daily Record, The Scotsman etc. to turn their resources and their ‘intellects’ to a deeper analysis of the reasons for the present state of the NHS.
Time to undertake journalism that goes beyond writing a précis of simplistic Labour Party statements condemning the Scottish Government for all the ills of NHS Scotland!
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