Professor John Robertson OBA

BBC Scotland seems to have no video evidence of corridor care of the kind shown by BBC Breakfast this morning (above) and Jackie Baillie, Labour health spokesperson had to use us evidence from English wards to lie that there is comparable evidence from Scotland.

I feel so sure that had Reporting Scotland anything like the above, we’d see it repeatedly.

BBC Breakfast, this morning, reported that the Health Foundation had found ‘the NHS (sic) was in distress this winter.’ There is no mention of Scotland in the full report.

They summarised:

BBC Scotland did not follow-up. Here’s why

First, on the number waiting 12 hours or more in A&E.

From Public Health Scotland, today for January 2025:

8,814 (7.2%) patients spent more than 12 hours in A&E.¹

In NHS England, for the same month, the figure was 15.36%, more than twice as many.²

Second, on ambulance performance:

As the Guardian highlights long ambulance wait deaths, how Scotland’s ambulances were FOUR times faster in early 2024 before BBC pulled the site where I got the facts

Sources:

1. https://www.publichealthscotland.scot/healthcare-system/urgent-and-unscheduled-care/accident-and-emergency/main-points/all-ae-sites/
2. https://www.england.nhs.uk/statistics/statistical-work-areas/ae-waiting-times-and-activity/