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The Herald front page today is frankly disgusting. That’s a five year total added-up in an infantile attempt to get a big number. It was actually just 96.2m and far more important, they won’t share with us the real news, it’s falling.

In their own report, para 7, we see:

So three years ago, in one year, £38m out of £96m was paid out, leaving £58m to be shared out over the other 4 years, three of them after that. They present that as further bad news, deliberately, you have to think, not then drawing the obvious conclusion that it must be falling after that and has become good news.

Here are the official figures, sources below:

If the Herald’s total of £96m is correct, then the Scottish figure for 2024/2025 is only £7m! These pay-outs are plummeting.

NHS England, using the latest figures for comparison, 2023/2024, per head of population, 7 times higher.

Sources:

1. https://questions-statements.parliament.uk/written-questions/detail/2025-02-05/29218
2. https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/687a2dae312ee8a5f0806b6f/nhs-resolution-annual-report-and-accounts-2024-to-2025-hc1065-web-accessible.pdf
3. https://www.nss.nhs.scot/media/5856/cnoris-annual-report-2023-2024-published.pdf

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