Scotland’s NHS performance fails to recover after covid pandemic
BMJ 2024; 387 doi: https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.q2679 (Published 28 November 2024) Cite this as: BMJ 2024;387:q2679
- Bryan Christie
- Edinburgh
Scotland is lagging behind England in improving its NHS performance in the wake of the covid pandemic.
An analysis by the Institute for Fiscal Studies has found that while hospital activity and waiting times have improved in England, no similar uplift has occurred in Scotland.1 “NHS performance is currently worse than pre-pandemic across all measures considered in Scotland,” said the report.
The institute compared the latest data from April to June this year with October to December 2019. Elective inpatient admissions to Scottish hospitals were down by …
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