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Professor John Robertson OBA
From People requiring a social care assessment and care at home services published yesterday
The estimated number of people assessed and waiting for a care at home package [in Scotland] was 3,264 on 4 August 2025. This [fell in the last week] represents an increase of just under 2% from the estimated number of people waiting for a care at home package this time last year on 5 August 2024.1
From Adult social care in England, monthly statistics: July 2025 [most recent figures] published 3 July 2025
From April 2024 to March 2025, 586,000 people received a local authority adult social care assessment in England, having not received local authority long-term support in the previous 12 months. The monthly figure is not clear but judging by the graph included, seems to hover around 50 0002
All things being equal, you’d think the figure for England, with 10 times the population might be around 33 000 but it was nearer 50 000, 50% higher.
Sources:
- https://www.publichealthscotland.scot/publications/people-requiring-a-social-care-assessment-and-care-at-home-services/people-requiring-a-social-care-assessment-and-care-at-home-services-26-august-2025
- https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/adult-social-care-in-england-monthly-statistics-july-2025/adult-social-care-in-england-monthly-statistics-july-2025
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I must protest at your constant use of FACTS to suggest that Scotland’s NHS and Care System is superior to that of England .
I mean , you could prove ANYTHING with FACTS !
Yours , her Dameness , Jaikie Baillie .
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The lack of a wider context by the Anglo-Brit colonial media is entirely in keeping with their propaganda stance.
In Scotland its BAD, but don’t mention England or Wales, because their stats tend to be much, much worse. Even drug deaths, when properly examined and reported may well be worse down south…….AND the origins in Scotland go back to the 70’s at least when LABOUR ruled ALL……now they only rule the media.
gavinochiltree
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“Waiting list for a care at home package 50% longer in England than in Scotland – Imagine that was the other way round“?
Yeh but that’s the problem, we do not need to “imagine” , as we already know what would happen via hostile political and media forces….and others also.
Liz S
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Imagine the following was happening in Scotland? Imagine if the British Labour Party and its ally, the Daily Record could lay blame for the following on the Scottish Government!
Source: StatsWales (https://statswales.gov.wales/Catalogue/Health-and-Social-Care/NHS-Hospital-Waiting-Times/emergency-department )
NHS Wales waiting times in major emergency departments during July 2025:
Meeting the 4 hour standard = 54.1%
Attendances spending over 8 hours in A&E = 24.3%
Attendances spending over 12 hours in A&E = 14.9%.
The Royal College of Emergency (RCEM) commented on these latest figures in a press release on August 21: ‘Summer surge must be ‘huge wake up call’ for Welsh government as winter looms’.
It noted for NHS Wales: 12-hour waits at its highest level so far this year; worst July on record for eight hour waits; worst July on record for over 4 hour waits.
Commenting on the equivalent NHS Scotland performance statistics albeit for June 2025 (latest monthly data release), the RCEM on August 5 issued a statement under the heading ‘Number of people facing extreme waits in Scotland’s A&E ‘unacceptable and dangerous’. Note the ‘tone’. So what merited ‘unacceptable’ and ‘dangerous’ in Scotland but not, apparently, in Wales?
The RCEM reported NHS Scotland’s performance in major (Type 1) emergency departments: 69.7% of patients seen within four hours (Wales = 54.1%); 10.8% spending more than eight hours (Wales = 24.3%); 4.35% spending 12 hours or more (Wales = 14.9%).
Those differences are HUGE!!!!!!!
Do those inclined towards voting for the British Labour Party at the 2026 Holyrood election really consider the Welsh experience to be the ‘New Direction’ Scotland should follow? Is this what the Daily Record wants to see in Scotland for its loyal readers?
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