Above, the plummeting ongoing waits after 52 weeks in NHS Scotland, for new outpatients and, on the right, for inpatients and day cases. These are dramatic, around 50%, and surely ‘newsworthy’, but:

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The BBC Scotland website above, at 7pm, nine hours after this important announcement by the Scottish Government ignores the above images:

Published on 24 February 2026 at 10:00am:

Health Secretary hails ‘undeniable progress’ in tacking long waits.

New figures show waiting lists in Scotland continue to fall with waits of over a year decreasing for 8 consecutive months.

Data from Public Health Scotland shows, at 31 January 2026, new outpatient waits of more than 52 weeks have more than halved since July 2025 – with the total waits decreasing by 52.6% in that period.

Long waits for inpatient and day case procedures have also fallen every month since July 2025, with 52 week waits decreasing by 29.8% in that 8 month period.

New quarterly diagnostics statistics also show that, at 31 December 2025, the number of waits for one of the eight key diagnostic tests had decreased by 15.1% when compared to 30 September 2025.

https://www.gov.scot/news/nhs-waiting-lists-continue-to-fall/

This morning, they continue to ignore the above.

This requires an agenda at editorial level given that all of BBC Scotland’s news reporters will receive, across social media platforms and in their own email inboxes, alerts to Scottish Government announcements such as the above.

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