The target is for 90% of people referred with a drug or alcohol problem to wait no longer than three weeks for treatment.
6 609 people sought alcohol treatment and 4 638 sought drug treatment.
Despite these numbers, 94.9% seeking alcohol treatment and 93.2% seeking drug treatment waited three weeks or less for treatment.
I can’t find comparable data from NHS England but:
Talking-up Scotland 
I guess the Nomedia story, if there is to be one will ‘sam’ the ‘failure’ in Lothian.
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“Drug and alcohol treatment funding slashed across England by 16% in four years”
And that’s what it would have been in Scotland, too, without the ‘buffer’ of the SNP Government.
Off topic, but still on funding, I see from the BBC this morning that Westminster is making available £2bn for a ‘panic’ fund to offset the carnage of a crash out of the European Union. Of that, Scotland is assigned £55m – that is 2.75% of the total. England is to get 95.7% of the cushion.
8% of the population, 30+% of the land area and 96% of all the oil and gas – I cannot fathom how London came up with a figure of less than 3% to provide some sort of safety-net for the people of Scotland.
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Because the sub 3% figure is about all they consider Scotland to be worth.
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Very interesting.
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