How Wes Streeting’s NHS app has failed the people of England

Professor John Robertson OBA

In the Times on 30 September 2025, the above and:

Wes Streeting has attacked the SNP over its “shameful” failure to launch an NHS app for Scottish patients. The UK health secretary told the Labour conference that while progress was being made in England and Wales on tackling waiting lists and harnessing innovative new technologies in the health service, standards were continuing to deteriorate in Scotland. He highlighted the failure of the Nationalist government to launch an app for the health service — one has been in use in England for the past six years.

Oooh, has this app improved waiting times in England compared to those in old-fashioned, analogue, Scotland?

13 times as many, per head, assessed but waiting for a care at home package in England
Royal College estimates 20 times as many (twice per head) excess deaths linked to long waits in NHS England than in NHS Scotland
How can there be ‘an A&E crisis’ of deaths ‘associated’ with long waits only in Scotland when they are actually falling here and nearly FOUR times as common in NHS England?
In NHS Wales A&E after decades of Labour-control, three times as many wait more than 12 hours, twice as many wait more than 8 hours and nearly one third more wait more than 4 hours yet it’s ‘dangerous’ here?
Waiting list for a care at home package 50% longer in England than in Scotland – Imagine that was the other way round?
Scotland has almost TWICE as many hospital beds per head of population than England to keep longer A&E waits at far lower levels
NHS Scotland’s Type 1 Emergency departments 4 hour waits improve for third month to beat NHS England by 10% and longer waits fall to the lowest in more than two years
Latest – Heart operation waiting list in NHS England 50% longer than in NHS Scotland
Cancer waiting times – NHS Scotland treats significantly more within target waiting times again

Nope,

I could go on.

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6 thoughts on “How Wes Streeting’s NHS app has failed the people of England”

  1. As a Scot, now living in England( voluntary exile fir family reasons) I cab reort that getting medicsl appointments in England is a huge problem.

    I have,Glaucoma abd have struggled since February 2023 to get appointments to check my conditioning whether or not it is stable. Appointmens,arranged with difficulty are frequently cancelled,at the last moment, then I hear nothing for months, despite phoning regularly for updates.

    I was offered a Phusiotherapy appointment for a knee problem but this took months as I was referred to private agency calked Connect Health to arrange this. The only contact offered was a phone number which was not manned but sent the caller to a useless website which made you jump through msny hoops only to be told (at various times, my email address, postcode or date of birth were invalid! None of them were and they used the email to tell me my attempt to arrabge,an appointment had failed andI needed a new referral from my GP! All designed, I suspect, to make people think they shouldn’t bother.

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  2. Didn’t Wes Streeting say last year that the Welsh (Labour) devolved government’s NHS services were negatively impacted by many of the Tory UK government’s (bad) decisions and also the lack of funding on the NHS (also by the Tory UK government as well). When he was on the Laura Kuenssberg Sunday Politics show.

    He was then reminded (by LK) that , as an opinion, that was not what Labour say in relation to the SNP devolved Scottish government and the Scottish NHS………..as any failures Labour say exist in the Scottish NHS are all then, by the Labour party, totally blamed upon the SNP as the Scottish devolved government !

    So now he, Streeting, is reverting to (Labour) type…..

    #LabourNastyParty and #LabourDoubleStandards

    Does he think he has a ‘winning’ argument to help Labour win next year in Scotland ?

    Surely he knows that it is now looking as if …..that (Labour) ship has already sailed….it is sinking…and hopefully will not ever dock ever again….successfully……… anywhere within Scotland……

    #DoNotVoteLabour………….as there will be………

    #NoChange……&……..#NoNewDirection……..with Labour.

    “Renew Britain” ?

    The reality is that Labour have only ‘renewed’ themselves …………into a new version of the Tory party…..with a huge dose of Reform UK within the mix as well……..a right wing alliance of right wing ideas , plans , policies and slogans…..for what is fast becoming a right wing fascist UK State………under Labour, Tory or Reform UK….take your pick they are all the same.

    Liz S

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    1. “Labour” are merely enablers for the Reform UK fascist state. Transition managers.

      “Labour” do not care if they lose the next English Parliament GE because if they do lose, Reform will win.

      John H

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  4. Perhaps Westminster should be replaced by an app – when it fails, that might be our best way of escaping the madness of English rule.

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