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Scotland’s ambulances are between 2 and 3 times faster than in England, thousands of times but Daily Record repeats the same one case to to deflect you with
The Daily Record above today repeating a story from 2025.
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In July 2026:
On 26 June 2026:
There are some minor problems in comparing the data for England and Scotland but you can be sure that were they to favour the former, they’d be widely reported. Here’s why they’re not:
Comparing median and mean ambulance response times can be useful, but each metric provides different insights, and their comparability depends on the data’s distribution and context. Here’s a breakdown:
Mean (Average) Response Time: The sum of all response times divided by the number of responses. It gives a general sense of typical performance but is sensitive to extreme values (e.g., a few very long response times can skew the mean upward).
Median Response Time: The middle value when all response times are ordered. It represents the point where half the responses are faster and half are slower, making it less affected by outliers and often a better measure of “typical” performance in skewed datasets.
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In January 2024, BBC UK made direct comparison possible:
Via the BBC’s How long do patients wait for an ambulance? app, we can confirm that the average waiting time for a Scottish ambulance was 8 min and 46 secs: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-59549800
Also, from BBC UK on 14 December 2023:
Average response times of more than 38 minutes for category two emergency calls such as heart attacks and strokes – above the target time of 18 minuteshttps://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-67714151
Yes, I know the English figures are only for Category 2 emergency calls such as heart attacks and strokes and we can’t see if the Scottish figures are for the same or for all categories, but if they were for all categories including the less serious ones, that would make the Scottish average even more impressive!
I did expect not to find Scottish postcodes in the app, as is the case for Wales and Northern Ireland. BBC Scotland has since managed to get them removed.
They seem to have stopped offering this service in early March 2024 when the Scottish average wait for an ambulance was 8 minutes and 36 seconds but for England, they stopped posting the average to replace it with the percentage waiting more than 30 minutes – 27%. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-59549800
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4 thoughts on “Scotland’s ambulances are between 2 and 3 times faster than in England, thousands of times but Daily Record repeats the same one case to to deflect you with”
I wonder :
would the Daily Rancid writers who decry the Scottish Ambulance response time , in the event of them suffering a heart seizure , prefer the English response time or the Scottish response time .
That lying waste of paper rag could hardly use bigger lettering, not in your face at all is it.
I notice the anti SNP propaganda sheets are always plonked in front of others reporting on English government or international stuff, in our local shops. End of the day, looks like fewer people are buying their lies, shame about the forests they’re destroying though.
You write in the context of your article that “BBC Scotland has since managed to get them removed”
Well I’ll tell you something else about the BBC in respect to Scotland, namely about Scottish politics, that as news today, is not on their website. (so far that is- at 12.29pm).
And that is that today they have managed so far to completely ignore a #BAD story (that broke over the weekend) that is currently being reported in the media that is linked to the Scottish Lib Dems.
This is strange, as only last week they, the BBC on their Scottish pages, had a article on their website that stated “Lib Dems the most influential party at Holyrood, Cole-Hamilton says”.
So what is the latest (#bad) news in relation to the Scottish Lib Dems?
Well it is in respect to one of their MP’s elected in Scotland, Christine Jardine.
It seems that she is currently stating that she has been told by some within the party , that she is “too old for re-election”.
She said that “her age was seen by party colleagues as a factor in why she should not seek re-election” .
She then said ” I decided that I’ve had enough” and also said “It’s not how I wanted it to end and I didn’t want to step down but I’d had enough of what I felt was going on in the party”.
This is interesting, as who are these party colleagues , who have told her that she was “too old for re-election” ?
Also what does she mean when she said “I’d had enough of what I felt was going on in the party” ?
So what has been “going on in the party” ?
Is the BBC not curious to explore this as current news , as in it being a very topical piece of Scottish political news happening in relation to Scottish politics ?
Or am I being naïve in forgetting the BBC’s rule, that rule being that any #BAD news relating to politics in Scotland, is then mostly only confined to and so then only reported as being typical #BAD news linked mainly to the SNP.
Former CEO of the Scottish Lib Dems, Emma Walker of the #AskAlex campaign , said on social media that:
“This is not- IN ANY WAY- to do with age”.
So I guess then that we will all have to imagine if this were a female SNP MP of the same age as Ms Jardine that this happened to, then would the BBC also decide to just ignore it as a story on their website?
Now that, needs very little thought as to what the answer would be.
Remember it is the Scottish local elections next year and the Lib Dems will be fighting for seats against the SNP , so as the BBC is currently in election campaign mode , then part of their strategy is to only highlight #SNPBAD stories while either downplaying (in making excuses for) or ignoring any #BAD stories linked to other parties, including the Lib Dems in Scotland.
Will this story grow arms and legs in the media or will it be cut off (in it’s prime) after being reported as it stands, just now , as a story ?
Will Ms Jardine expand further on this story or will she now cease and desist for the (non) greater good of the party ?
(As in the same party that is allegedly dumping her because of her age and sex , or is it really her alleged ongoing poor relationship that she has had with ACH the branch office manager in Scotland ).
The Scotsman was alleged to have revealed at the weekend that “she had failed to secure reselection by her local executive committee. Allies and insiders confirmed she was pushed aside in favour of an ally of Scottish Lib Dem leader Alex Cole-Hamilton, with some officials explicitly raising “concern about her age”?
Is that jobs for the boys then ?
Hope not, as that would then give further credence to what Emma Walker had once stated in 2025 where she said there was “sexist and misogynistic behaviours from senior Lib Dem men”.
I mean we all know already that the Lib Dems, as a party , always were #BAD, but for some reason other voters and the media failed to catch up with our insight upon them as a party, an insight that we have ascertained via evidence of their past #VeryBad behaviour.
Yellow Tories that is what the Lib Dems are. (hence why the BBC tries to both promote and protect them).
Also as for BBC Scotland , well that is where we do not always get all of the “News where we are”
I wonder if the ‘dumping’ of Jardine has anything to do with her history of putting herself forward in any seat in Scotland in her desire to get elected as an MP ? Inverness , Aberdeen , Gordon and tried for the EU Parliament too – all failures .
It doesn’t inspire confidence that she is someone to rely on if a better offer comes along given her obvious lack of loyalty to anywhere .
I wonder :
would the Daily Rancid writers who decry the Scottish Ambulance response time , in the event of them suffering a heart seizure , prefer the English response time or the Scottish response time .
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That lying waste of paper rag could hardly use bigger lettering, not in your face at all is it.
I notice the anti SNP propaganda sheets are always plonked in front of others reporting on English government or international stuff, in our local shops. End of the day, looks like fewer people are buying their lies, shame about the forests they’re destroying though.
LikeLiked by 1 person
You write in the context of your article that “BBC Scotland has since managed to get them removed”
Well I’ll tell you something else about the BBC in respect to Scotland, namely about Scottish politics, that as news today, is not on their website. (so far that is- at 12.29pm).
And that is that today they have managed so far to completely ignore a #BAD story (that broke over the weekend) that is currently being reported in the media that is linked to the Scottish Lib Dems.
This is strange, as only last week they, the BBC on their Scottish pages, had a article on their website that stated “Lib Dems the most influential party at Holyrood, Cole-Hamilton says”.
So what is the latest (#bad) news in relation to the Scottish Lib Dems?
Well it is in respect to one of their MP’s elected in Scotland, Christine Jardine.
It seems that she is currently stating that she has been told by some within the party , that she is “too old for re-election”.
She said that “her age was seen by party colleagues as a factor in why she should not seek re-election” .
She then said ” I decided that I’ve had enough” and also said “It’s not how I wanted it to end and I didn’t want to step down but I’d had enough of what I felt was going on in the party”.
This is interesting, as who are these party colleagues , who have told her that she was “too old for re-election” ?
Also what does she mean when she said “I’d had enough of what I felt was going on in the party” ?
So what has been “going on in the party” ?
Is the BBC not curious to explore this as current news , as in it being a very topical piece of Scottish political news happening in relation to Scottish politics ?
Or am I being naïve in forgetting the BBC’s rule, that rule being that any #BAD news relating to politics in Scotland, is then mostly only confined to and so then only reported as being typical #BAD news linked mainly to the SNP.
Former CEO of the Scottish Lib Dems, Emma Walker of the #AskAlex campaign , said on social media that:
“This is not- IN ANY WAY- to do with age”.
So I guess then that we will all have to imagine if this were a female SNP MP of the same age as Ms Jardine that this happened to, then would the BBC also decide to just ignore it as a story on their website?
Now that, needs very little thought as to what the answer would be.
Remember it is the Scottish local elections next year and the Lib Dems will be fighting for seats against the SNP , so as the BBC is currently in election campaign mode , then part of their strategy is to only highlight #SNPBAD stories while either downplaying (in making excuses for) or ignoring any #BAD stories linked to other parties, including the Lib Dems in Scotland.
Will this story grow arms and legs in the media or will it be cut off (in it’s prime) after being reported as it stands, just now , as a story ?
Will Ms Jardine expand further on this story or will she now cease and desist for the (non) greater good of the party ?
(As in the same party that is allegedly dumping her because of her age and sex , or is it really her alleged ongoing poor relationship that she has had with ACH the branch office manager in Scotland ).
The Scotsman was alleged to have revealed at the weekend that “she had failed to secure reselection by her local executive committee. Allies and insiders confirmed she was pushed aside in favour of an ally of Scottish Lib Dem leader Alex Cole-Hamilton, with some officials explicitly raising “concern about her age”?
Is that jobs for the boys then ?
Hope not, as that would then give further credence to what Emma Walker had once stated in 2025 where she said there was “sexist and misogynistic behaviours from senior Lib Dem men”.
I mean we all know already that the Lib Dems, as a party , always were #BAD, but for some reason other voters and the media failed to catch up with our insight upon them as a party, an insight that we have ascertained via evidence of their past #VeryBad behaviour.
Yellow Tories that is what the Lib Dems are. (hence why the BBC tries to both promote and protect them).
Also as for BBC Scotland , well that is where we do not always get all of the “News where we are”
Liz S
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I wonder if the ‘dumping’ of Jardine has anything to do with her history of putting herself forward in any seat in Scotland in her desire to get elected as an MP ? Inverness , Aberdeen , Gordon and tried for the EU Parliament too – all failures .
It doesn’t inspire confidence that she is someone to rely on if a better offer comes along given her obvious lack of loyalty to anywhere .
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