5 thoughts on “Remember on Thursday that Labour in Wales, after nearly 30 years in power run the worst ambulance service in the UK”

  2. Both votes SNP to maintain :

    higher NHS standards in Scotland , passenger friendly nationalised rail service , no tuition fees for Uni students , free prescriptions , better dental treatment , no NHS doctors’ strikes , more GPs per patient , cheaper and better water supplies , Scottish Child Payment to help families , Baby Boxes ……

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    1. Scottish Water has been kept in public hands by the SNP.
      Labour had fully planned to sell it off, lock stock and barrel. The greedy water thieves must be chomping at the bit to get their dirty hands on Scottish Water.
      Let’s make sure they never get to control Scotland again.

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    2. ….. .R E T for islanders to keep down costs , best ambulance service in UK , lowest tax bands for low earners , more nurses per patient , more hospital beds per patient , better Childcare provision , lowest Child Poverty in UK , lowest council Taxes in UK , Gender Pay Gap lowest in UK , ….

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  3. British Labour Party politicians and the MSM in Scotland have been working hard (colluding?) to shield voters here from the overwhelming evidence that whatever improvements Scotland’s NHS needs, there is no reason to believe they will be delivered by electing a Labour government to Holyrood. The Party’s track record of governing with (just) devolved powers in Wales provides ample justification for this view.

    The authoritative health think tank, the Nuffield Trust lays out the state of NHS Wales under a Labour government in power for c.30 years. It compares NHS Wales to the NHS elsewhere in the UK. See: Nuffield Trust (24 April 2026) Wales: health and care issues for the 2026 election. (https://www.nuffieldtrust.org.uk/resource/wales-health-and-care-issues-for-the-2026-election )

    The Trust’s briefing sums up like this: ‘The new Welsh government, of whatever party or coalition, has a particularly difficult inheritance in health and social care. Waiting times are poor and the public deeply unhappy. Wales’s older, more deprived population means that needs for care are elevated, and sustained high levels of health funding reflect that. The incoming ministers will know that there is not enough money in the coffers to simply spend their way to success.’ (my emphasis) A population ‘more deprived’ after 30 years of Labour?

    Let’s not vote to have Scotland change to be more like Labour’s Wales!

    The Trust also reports:

    1. WAITING TIMES: ‘Long waits for planned hospital care and for emergency department visits are a matter of public concern across the UK, …. But in Wales, waiting times tend to be longer.‘

    ‘Patients in Wales are more likely to wait longer in A&E than in England or Scotland’ – since January 2013 at least, NHS Scotland has performed substantially better than NHS Wales, according to a chart in the Trust’s briefing.

    Patients in Wales wait longer for planned hospital treatment – ‘It is difficult to compare waits for planned care in Wales, England and Scotland, due to differences in standards and measures – particularly relative to Scotland. However, the comparable data that does exist suggests people are more likely to be on a waiting list in Wales, and to be on it for longer. Polling by the ONS has been conducted across Great Britain, though not Northern Ireland. It found that people in Wales were much more likely to say they had been waiting more than 18 months.’

    2. SPENDING: ‘Although it struggles to deliver care in as timely a fashion as other UK countries, Wales is now the UK’s highest spender per person.’ The Trust asks: ‘Why might Wales struggle for comparable NHS performance while spending more? One possibility is that population need is higher, in a country with more people in older age brackets than the rest of the UK, and a higher level of deprivation.’ Wales not enjoying a Union dividend EVEN under Labour?

    3. STAYS IN HOSPITAL: ‘Despite post-pandemic efforts, the average length of stay in Wales is much higher than in England, at 6.7 days against 5.1 days in 2024/25. Patients in Wales are kept in hospital a little more than one-and-a-half times as long, on average, than those in England.’ The average stay in Scotland is shorter than in Wales too but by a smaller amount.

    4. EMERGENCIES: ‘Emergency admissions are higher in Wales, suggesting efforts to keep people well may be less effective’.

    5. RESOURCING PRIMARY CARE: ‘The share of resources allocated to secondary care through local health boards (LHB) has risen since 2019/20 – The proportion dedicated to primary care through these boards, such as general practice, has fallen by 3 percentage points, from 23% to 20%.’

    ‘Wales has the lowest number of GPs per 100,000 people – ‘the Future Generations Commissioner recently warned that “Wales is investing in sickness not health”, and where there is now the lowest number of GPs per 100,000 people (89 per 100,000) of any UK country.’

    6. SOCIAL CARE: ‘.. while spending has risen, it has not kept pace with the growth in demand for social care support, and Wales’s social care system remains under significant pressure. For people with care and support needs, this translates to long waits to access the services they require, and a stronger reliance on unpaid carers to fill the gaps.

    ‘The waiting times for people needing home care between their care and support plan being developed and the service actually starting peaked at almost three weeks in 2022/23. This has slightly improved in recent years to become a two-week wait, but remains considerably higher than in 2020/21 where the wait time was only around three days.’

    ‘The wait between people needing care and the service starting has come down but waits remain high for both care home and care at home services.’

    Why vote Labour in Scotland if this is what it may get us? Let’s not vote to have Scotland change to be more like Labour’s Wales!

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