In the Guardian today:
NHS medical negligence persisting in England ‘despite 24 years of warnings’ – MPs on influential committee excoriate health department and NHS England for errors costing £3.6bn a year. Medical negligence in the NHS keeps harming and killing patients because governments and health service bosses have not acted on 24 years’ worth of warnings, MPs have said.
In a scathing report published on Friday, the public accounts committee (PAC) excoriates the Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) and NHS England for allowing the cost of mistakes to balloon to £3.6bn a year.
Between them, the two bodies have failed to take “any meaningful action” to address the problem in England, despite four PAC reports from as early as 2002 advising them to do so, the committee says.
How does NHS Scotland compare?
If things were as bad here with a tenth of the population, it’d be around £360 million a year.
It wasn’t. It was only £44 million, just over one ninth, 11%:
https://www.nss.nhs.scot/media/5856/cnoris-annual-report-2023-2024-published.pdf
Why might this be?
More nurses, doctors, beds? No strikes? Less interference from a Tory or Labour government showing them no respect? A listening government that pays them a bit better?
Talking-up Scotland 
A very good report on England’s NHS on ITV news lunch time news worth a look.We might have problems nothing like there’s.
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One of the reasons Sarwar and Baillie continue their attacks on the SNHS. It wouldn’t do for Scotland to be a smidgen better than England. They really are a pair of middens.
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You are far too polite about them. 🙂
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