‘Begging the public to stay away from A&E?’ No Scottish health board has actually said that or declared a ‘critical incident’ but four in NHS England have

From the Guardian today:

Four NHS hospital trusts in England have declared critical incidents after a “surge” in A&E admissions driven in large part by patients with flu, norovirus and respiratory viruses. Three trusts in Surrey and one in Kent sounded the alarm after a “surge in complex attendances to A&E departments”. A critical incident, which is usually declared when A&E departments are not able to necessarily deliver all of their services safely, is the highest alert level used by the NHS and allows bosses to take immediate steps to create capacity.

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2026/jan/13/four-nhs-trusts-in-england-declare-critical-incidents-after-surge-in-ae-admissions

Media in Scotland have, of course, tried to invent such a situation. Yesterday, the Herald had:

Why Scotland’s largest health board is begging the public to stay away from A&E

See that ‘begging?’ Just in the headline. No medic said that. Just ‘beg?’ Nowhere.

2 thoughts on “‘Begging the public to stay away from A&E?’ No Scottish health board has actually said that or declared a ‘critical incident’ but four in NHS England have”

  1. MSM Monitor posted this on X today

    “Wales’ largest health board under-counted the number of patients on its waiting lists by thousands over a five-month period, corrected figures have revealed”.

    This was via a BBC Wales article on the BBC website.

    “More than 11,600 cumulative cases in north Wales were not recorded as waiting for planned treatment between April and August last year”

    “That included 462 cases which should have been counted as waiting two years or more from a cumulative total of more than 29,300 between April and August”

    This is the reality of Labour in Wales………..

    So maybe the NHS is not really the best line of attack in Scotland for Anas Sarwar or indeed for any of the new Labour MP’s elected in Scotland in 2024 , who as supposed Scottish Labour MP’s, just love to promote the English NHS as being the best at the weekly PMQ’s.

    They, as supposed Scottish MP’s, are totally disrespecting all of the Nurses and Doctors working within Scotland…..just to try and get one over on the SNP…………and grovel to their useless Labour HQ leader.

    Labour as per ‘Do as we say not as we do’.

    Liz S

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  2. This looks like just another of the increasing desperate attempts by the Herald and its sponsors in trying the give the impression that Scotland cannot possibly be doing better than England, even if it means publishing complete nonsense.

    I wonder how much its circulation is down since this time last year?

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