From Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services (CAMHS) waiting times Quarter ending March 2026 published today, the above graph showing the 90% target beaten for 6 quarters (3 months) in a row, and:
91.2% of people started treatment within 18 weeks of referral, which is an increase from 90.0% for the previous quarter. 3,858 people started treatment in CAMHS. This is an increase of 2.4% (91) from the 3,767 starting treatment in the previous quarter and an increase of 1.8% (68) from the 3,790 patients who started treatment in the quarter ending March 2025. 50% of those starting treatment started within 6 weeks of referral.
Media representation has been frankly disgusting:
As referrals increases, inevitably more will be diagnosed as not likely to benefit from it. Is BBC Scotland saying medics are wrong?
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First rule when reading/listening/viewing BBC reports about Scotland’s NHS – don’t believe a word !
Check the actual stats. then compare these with the ‘alternative facts’ that the BBC appear to have cobbled together from whichever right wing scribbler has been given the job that day of misreporting the Scottish NHS facts .
However , bench mark has got to be ITV’s Peter Smith who cannot find a single positive fact when giving his po-faced reports on how the SNP is the worst thing to happen to Scotland since … the Union !
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