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By stewartb

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?