https://www.believeinscotland.org/mediaw...-englands/
So not "comparing apples with apples and pears with pears" and indeed the complicit Unionist RW media/press crossing our border and never wanna mention the superior Scottish A&E times. Anybody surprised????? No!!! It doesn't tie in with their continuous negative shit against the SNP and SNP govt!! The political collusion/conspiracy is so blatant and jaw dropping!
They must think we're all dafties up here in Scotland.
In evidence to a House of Lords committee (on 19th January 2023), the prevailing practice of measuring 12-hour waits from the time of a ‘decision to admit’ (DTA) rather than from ‘time of arrival’ (TOA – as in Scotland) was described by Dr Adrian Boyle, President of the RCEM as ‘a fundamentally dishonest way of reporting data. It is hiding and doing our patients a disservice by minimising a very serious problem’.”
“NHS England has relented and published the first set of monthly data (for February 2023) on 12-hour waits measured from time of arrival at A&E to admission, transfer or discharge.”
Another anomaly to watch out for is how NHS emergency waiting times get collated and reported by NHS England and then re-reported by UK media. A&E depts in Scotland are sometimes compared with English figures that include minor injury units, where wait times tend to be shorter.
A one-sided view that the NHS is failing
The figures on A&E waiting times are not good enough and there is a great deal of room for improvement. But creating a one-sided narrative that Scotland’s NHS is failing doesn’t help anyone – except those who may seek to benefit from privatisation.
Scotland’s NHS is actually performing quite a lot better than its neighbour. Two-thirds of people are seen at an A&E department here within four hours of arrival. That is closer to half for people living down south.
Scotland also has more doctors and nurses per 100,000 people and a more generous training system, with bursaries and free tuition. Nurses in Scotland now earn about £2,500 more on average than in England.
Scotland’s NHS is performing better than south of the border and that's a fact!
So not "comparing apples with apples and pears with pears" and indeed the complicit Unionist RW media/press crossing our border and never wanna mention the superior Scottish A&E times. Anybody surprised????? No!!! It doesn't tie in with their continuous negative shit against the SNP and SNP govt!! The political collusion/conspiracy is so blatant and jaw dropping!
They must think we're all dafties up here in Scotland.In evidence to a House of Lords committee (on 19th January 2023), the prevailing practice of measuring 12-hour waits from the time of a ‘decision to admit’ (DTA) rather than from ‘time of arrival’ (TOA – as in Scotland) was described by Dr Adrian Boyle, President of the RCEM as ‘a fundamentally dishonest way of reporting data. It is hiding and doing our patients a disservice by minimising a very serious problem’.”
“NHS England has relented and published the first set of monthly data (for February 2023) on 12-hour waits measured from time of arrival at A&E to admission, transfer or discharge.”
Another anomaly to watch out for is how NHS emergency waiting times get collated and reported by NHS England and then re-reported by UK media. A&E depts in Scotland are sometimes compared with English figures that include minor injury units, where wait times tend to be shorter.
A one-sided view that the NHS is failing
The figures on A&E waiting times are not good enough and there is a great deal of room for improvement. But creating a one-sided narrative that Scotland’s NHS is failing doesn’t help anyone – except those who may seek to benefit from privatisation.
Scotland’s NHS is actually performing quite a lot better than its neighbour. Two-thirds of people are seen at an A&E department here within four hours of arrival. That is closer to half for people living down south.
Scotland also has more doctors and nurses per 100,000 people and a more generous training system, with bursaries and free tuition. Nurses in Scotland now earn about £2,500 more on average than in England.
Scotland’s NHS is performing better than south of the border and that's a fact!