Five NHS waiting lists where Scotland does better, often far better, here for you, but ‘Record reporter’ uses the one where you can’t compare

The Record is, above, not making any comparison with NHS England in today’s Labour Party election pamphlet. That’s because it is not possible.

More important, it’s also the only one of several waiting lists in which NHS Scotland is doing better that they won’t be telling you about.

Here they are:

Long A&E waits for the over 90’s shocking 36% more common in NHS England than in NHS Scotland
NHS waiting list in England is longer per head by quarter of a million patients and shockingly twice as long in Wales, than in Scotland
Four times as many, per head, waiting for a social care assessment or package in England than in Scotland yet the latter is ‘struggling?’
Long A&E waits more than twice as common in NHS England but despite that the Royal College of Emergency Medicine in England has little to say by comparison with its comments in Scotland
Royal College estimates 20 times as many (twice per head) excess deaths linked to long waits in NHS England than in NHS Scotland

Privatisation:

Latest data shows just 1.8% of the Scottish population used private healthcare for inpatient and day case admissions but STV find a private healthcare boom
NHS England more than 100 times, 10 times per head, more privatised than NHS Scotland
The scale of the drift to privatisation – Nearly 100% of GPs in Scotland work in the NHS but only 66% do so in England

4 thoughts on “Five NHS waiting lists where Scotland does better, often far better, here for you, but ‘Record reporter’ uses the one where you can’t compare”

  3. I gave up on the Record when in the 70’s they used screaming Newspaper Headlines that contained terms like “Devil Dogs” – meaning large toothy dogs, “Mercy Men” meaning firemen and “Angels” meaning nurses.

    Since I was now more used to joined up writing, I often found more serious comment in an Embassy Fag Coupon catalogue.

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