Meeting of the Parliament 18 February 2015
I am more than happy to talk about how statistics can improve transparency around the performance of the NHS, because I believe that we can use the NHS performs website to tell a fantastic story about the NHS’s performance—one that the Labour Party wants to talk down. Our staff in the NHS are doing a fantastic job and it behoves politicians of all parties not to talk down the NHS. We will make sure, through NHS performs, that we continue to tell the fantastic story of that performance across the whole country.
I move amendment S4M-12325.3, to leave out from “notes” to end and insert:
“thanks the staff of the NHS for their hard work during the challenging winter period; notes that in recent years there has been a progressive increase in the statistics available on the performance of NHS Scotland; welcomes that, from 3 March 2015, weekly A&E performance statistics will be published on the website, NHS Performs, and that NHS Scotland’s Information Services Division will also be identifying how it can further enhance the accessibility of NHS performance statistics in consultation with the users of statistics and the wider public, and strongly condemns the recent misrepresentation of information on NHS performance, which devalues the work of Scotland’s health service.”
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