being missed.
Professor John Robertson OBA
UK Labour’s Elaine Stewart outside her local hospital to shout about supposed failures, demoralising passing staff again and being carefully selective about what locals should know.
There are two cancer treatment targets.
The 62-day standard states that 95% of eligible patients should wait no longer than 62 days from urgent suspicion of cancer referral to first cancer treatment.
Only one Scottish NHS board meets that target. This is the longer of the two targets presumably for good reason.
The shorter target, the 31-day standard, states that 95% of eligible patients should wait no longer than 31 days from decision to treat to first cancer treatment.
Ayrshire & Arran beats the 95% target and the NHS Scotland average,
Who is responsible? Is it the head of the health board or trust as Labour politicians and the media assume in England or is FM john Swinney as Elaine Stewart seems to think?
Also, Stewart has carefully chosen this aspect of the performance of her local NHS.
Why, we wonder, did she not choose these?
Stunning success as NHS Ayrshire & Arran top table for second time and treat more than 99% of drug and alcohol abusers within only 3 weeks
From Public Health Scotland, the above table, latest data, showing that NHS Ayrshire and Arran saw 99.4% of all referrals for problematic use of drugs and/or alcohol within three weeks. The official target is 90%.
There were 649 referrals in that quarter.
In the previous quarter, NHS Ayrshire and Arran was also near the top with 99.3% seen within the target.
99% on time treatment of children and adolescents with mental health problems
the monthly data for NHS Ayrshire & Arran in 2025:
Source: https://www.opendata.nhs.scot/dataset
Even in January, when travel can be difficult, 96.43% were treated within 0 to 18 weeks, the target time.
It was 97-98% in the Spring and in the last two months, 99%!
How does this compare with NHS Scotland’s average. It was better than the latest figure of 91.8%
Sources:
Talking-up Scotland 'Albatraz' 