BBC Breakfast had the above, this morning based on another RCEM survey, in NHS England. It seems to reinforce ITV’s own survey findings in March (below) and to remind us of the very different picture in NHS Scotland, a picture not being used by the media operating in Scotland.

From ITV News at 6.30pm March 16th 2026, based on their own survey, the above graphic:

A special report on the corridor care crisis in Wales where it appears to be more common than in anywhere else in the UK. 89 000 treated in corridors in one health trust.

and on their website:

It comes as new figures reveal almost 89,000 patients were treated in corridors or other non-clinical environments between 2022 and the end of October 2025 in hospitals run by Betsi Cadwaladr University Health Board.

In February this year, an undercover investigation by the S4C current affairs programme Y Byd ar Bedwar filmed dozens of patients receiving care on corridors in the emergency departments at two north Wales hospitals.

Journalists also spoke with 40 people who said they had witnessed or experienced corridor care in hospitals run by the health board. A nurse at Ysbyty Gwynedd, who spoke anonymously, claimed treating patients in corridors has become “normal”. https://www.itv.com/news/wales/2026-03-16/thought-i-was-going-to-die-investigation-reveals-reality-of-corridor-careRegular

Regulars at TuS will have several reports on Labour-rule in England, two years into the current Labour administration and in Wales, for 104 years now, including these

How Labour has betrayed the people of Wales with an NHS ‘brought to its knees’

Jackie Baillie claims NHS England is 800 times better than NHS Scotland using her clearly limited maths common sense but will never tell you facts that really matter such as 12 hour A&E waits TWICE as long in England and nearly THREE TIMES as long in Wales or NHS Scotland increases number treated within 18 weeks to lead NHS England by 14%

Jackie Baillie claims NHS England is 800 times better than NHS Scotland using her clearly limited maths common sense but will never tell you facts that really matter such as 12 hour A&E waits TWICE as long in England and nearly THREE TIMES as long in Wales or NHS Scotland increases number treated within 18 weeks to lead NHS England by 14%

More than TWICE as many in NHS England and more than THREE times as many in NHS Wales, than in NHS Scotland, spending 12 hours or more in A&E

Significant Adverse Events running at TWICE the level in NHS England and NHS Wales to confirm leading European experts views on patient safety in NHS Scotland

Cancer waiting times – UK Government figures reveal that NHS Scotland performs significantly better than NHS England and shockingly better than NHS Wales and Northern Ireland

Hospital waiting lists in Scotland – significant increase in those seen within 18 weeks to remain 14% better than NHS England and far better than NHS Wales

Labour-run NHS Wales cuts cancer waiting times target, still fails to meet it but NHS Scotland bursts it!

Under Labour, NHS Wales has a waiting list 36% longer than England and 150% longer than Scotland

Cancer waiting times: NHS Scotland 20% better than NHS England and 44% better than NHS Wales

NHS waiting list in England is longer per head by quarter of a million patients and shockingly twice as long in Wales, than in Scotland

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