Author: johnrobertson834
The Guardian today reports – ‘NHS [England] staff fatigue poses ‘significant’ threat to patient safety, but does no mention Scotland’s far better staffing, training, pay and conditions:
BBC UK reports ‘UK’ relies too much on gas – could things be different here?
As BBC UK this morning report that ‘parts of Scotland generate so much energy’ the grid can’t cope the message for Scots is clear – no energy security risks here!
As Lisa Summers tries once more to scare us, how Glasgow’s super-hospital is safer than the average in Scotland and far safer than some in NHS England:
As the Herald today worries about poor second home owners, the facts they won’t tell you:
As BBC Scotland return to the Stonehaven derailment still trying to obscure the UK Government responsibility, the facts and how James Cook tried to switch the blame onto the SNP:
Scottish Media Fails to cover Fracking
Better pupil-teacher ratio under SNP means Scotland has SIX THOUSAND EXTRA teachers!
NHS England waiting list 50% longer than NHS Scotland’s
There are no data in the above BBC Scotland report based on one doctor’s impressions. BBC UK is not reporting this.
From Public Health Scotland: At 31 December 2021, 419,230 patients were waiting to be seen. This represents a slight decrease of 0.4% (-1,541) from the position at 30 September 2021, the first reported decrease in number of patients waiting from one quarter-end to the next since the pandemic began.
From Commons Library research: The number of people on a waiting list for hospital treatment [in England] rose to a record of nearly 6.1 million in December 2021.
England has ten times the population so, all things being equal, should have 4 million on the waiting list but has 50% more, at 6 million.
However, modelling revealed in the Spectator, no friend of Scotland suggests that the situation in England is on a an upward curve to 10.7 million by March 2024.
Sources:
NHS key statistics: England
Talking-up Scotland 