Anas and Kenny, a duo going nowhere?
Anas uses the one NHS card they have, waits over one year for by definition non-life-threatening conditions are shorter in England, which they owe to Boris Johnson after he spent millions clearing it, by paying the private sector to work weekends and evenings. John Swinney has, rather, gone for reducing the numbers on the 18-week [then 12]waiting list made up of those who are on it for the very obvious reason, their lives are at risk:
From Public Health Scotland 18 March 2025, for 2024 [Latest release], we can see that in Glasgow in December 2024, 70% of patients were treated within the target for life-threatening conditions such as heart failure, stroke and cancers.1
For NHS England the equivalent figure was only 58.9% treated within 18 weeks. No region reached 70%.2
- https://www.publichealthscotland.scot/publications/nhs-waiting-times-18-weeks-referral-to-treatment/nhs-waiting-times-18-weeks-referral-to-treatment-quarter-ending-31-december-2024/
- https://www.england.nhs.uk/statistics/statistical-work-areas/rtt-waiting-times/rtt-data-2024-25/
Footnote: directly comparable data are no longer available after NHS Scotland shifted to a more challenging 12 week target and NHS England did not follow - we can guess why. I'd put money on the gap between NHS England and Glasgow now being even wider!
Talking-up Scotland 'Albatraz' 
I remain sceptical of the “….waits over one year for by definition non-life-threatening conditions are shorter in England, which they owe to Boris Johnson after he spent millions clearing it, by paying the private sector to work weekends and evenings” story, some probably but not all, there simply wasn’t the capacity to cope… – Re-classification (fiddling the figures) was the more likely cause….
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Anas Sarwar’s New Year Resolution :
” I must maintain my position as the No1 Ambulance Chaser in Scotland . ”
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Slightly OT, but I note Lazy Winters has just had her latest nonsense published on BBC Scotland News, “Delayed discharges costing NHS Scotland £440m a year”, but one can only wonder who the editor was…
Such as this contributions from “Dr Fiona Hunter, vice president of the Royal College of Emergency Medicine, ‘said that the problem has resulted in patients becoming “stuck” in unsuitable areas of hospitals receiving “undignified care” for two to three days at a time’ – A bed is now an unsuitable area ? Is that not what this contrived purpose of this nonsense is about.
Or this from “Stephen Boyle, auditor general for Scotland”, said these organisations (government, health boards, councils and integrated joint boards) agreed on the need for major changes and were trying to reduce delayed discharges – Now they must improve how they collect, analyse and use data to evaluate the initiatives under way to tackle the problem,” she said – Without this, it’s impossible to understand the impacts and costs of delayed discharges and whether the initiatives across Scotland are improving lives, services and delivering value for money.” – Note the disconnect to Lisa having worked it all out at a headline “£440m a year” without any involvement of ‘these organisations’, even if she appears to believe Stephen has undergone a sex change.
Naturally for BBC balance as usual there are the 3 wailing and gnashing monkeys to quote from, Damn Baillie, Hairgel Gulhane and ACH-him – Baillie even ups Lisa’s guesstimate to “costing our NHS billions”.
https://archive.ph/o1YEP
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