Scotland's Two-Tier Health Service
A timely reminder from the blog archive that Nicola Sturgeon and the SNP have been presiding over a two-tier NHS for years.
People who have £2,500 to spare can go private and have their eyesight restored within days - or wait for three years for a cataract operation in an NHS hospital.
Private providers kept going throughout Covid of course whereas NHS hospitals ground to a halt.
The same is true for knee and hip replacement operations although these are even more expensive.
Scotland's Failing Health Service, the SNP and Porkie Pies (January 19, 2022)
As 2021 drew to a close Nicola Sturgeon appeared on the BBC's Andrew Marr programme and used the example of cataract operations to justify why Scotland has far fewer NHS beds these days.
The First Minister argued that for the likes of cataract operations people spend less time in hospital that they did years ago.
But this is a deliberate deception, dissembling nonsense, a blatant lie in plain language - because the real problem is that people can't get cataract operations done on the NHS these days.
In Glasgow, for example, there is a year's wait just to get on the waiting list, followed by another potential two year wait to have your eyesight finally restored.
Meanwhile if you have £2,500 to £3,500 to spare, you can have the operation done privately in a matter of days and Covid isn't being used as a convenient excuse - in fact business is booming!
NB - the SNP have been running Scotland's health service for the past 14 years.
