Many thanks to NHS FOR YES! for alerting me to this.
Today in the Guardian:
Public satisfaction with the NHS has risen for the first time since 2019, but people remain deeply frustrated with stubbornly long waits to receive GP, A&E or hospital care. The proportion of voters in Britain satisfied with the way the NHS runs has increased from the record low of 21% seen last year to 26%. At the same time dissatisfaction with the health service fell 8% – the biggest drop since 1998 – although it remains high at 51%.
Wes Streeting hailed the findings as proof that the NHS, which he said was “broken” when Labour won power in July 2024, was now “on the road to recovery”. The health secretary will cite them as evidence of progress in a speech on Wednesday in which he will set out plans to improve care at five badly performing health trusts. https://www.theguardian.com/society/2026/mar/25/public-satisfaction-with-nhs-rises-wes-streeting
There’s no 4 nations breakdown in the Guardian report, reasons below, and if there was, I suspect Wes might need to be careful using it, but it is in the full Nuffield Trust report:
A significantly lower proportion of people in Wales (18%) were satisfied with the NHS than the survey average. This remained statistically significant when controlling for other factors. People in Scotland (33%) were significantly more satisfied than people in Wales, but not compared to people in England (26%).
NHS Scotland satisfying 25% more (33 is 25% greater than 26) and:
While there were no significant differences between the age groups, analysis reveals that Scottish respondents are significantly more satisfied (40%) with NHS dentistry than both English (21%) and Welsh (14%) respondents. Scottish respondents were more satisfied than dissatisfied with NHS dentistry, in sharp contrast to English and Welsh respondents who were significantly more dissatisfied than satisfied.
NHS Scotland A&E and dentistry satisfying TWICE as many, and:
Scottish respondents were significantly more satisfied (40%) with A&E services than English (21%) and Welsh (14%) respondents.
There’s no BBC Scotland coverage of the above, of course.
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There’s even an article by Garrett Stell in The Herald’s “Stars, Stripes and Saltires” series about what life is like for Americans living in Scotland.
Mr Stell and his wife seem to have great experiences with NHS Scotland every time and yet, as The Herald’s Education Correspondent, Mr Stell feels he has to top and tail his comments by suggesting the NHS is a “mess” and citing “maternity services” even when “the interpersonal experiences” of he and his wife with two births contrast so much with what he suggests is “the big picture”.
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I read the Guardian piece and noted the absence of any mention of Scotland but didn’t get time to check out the actual report. I would imagine many of us here would have understood the lack of reference meant Scotland’s record was better, good to have this confirmed.
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