A quick one.

In the period prior to the pandemic, England inspected 8 155 hospitals, care homes and other healthcare-related places with a particular emphasis on infection control in the light of annual flu outbreaks, sometimes deadly.

All things being equal with just under a tenth of the population, you might expect the inspections figure in Scotland to be around 820 but it was 1 129, nearly 40% more.

Source: https://covid19.public-inquiry.uk/wp-content/uploads/2026/10/19064857/M6_Report_Accessible.pdf

Due to this and other factors such as earlier isolation and vaccine delivery, Covid deaths in Scottish care homes were much lower but that cannot be full demonstrated fully due to secrecy in the sector in England. See:

Scale of care home deaths IN England WERE kept secret by the media such as the Scotsman