The shocking human and legal cost of missing targets has been revealed with campaigners laying blame on staffing levels.
Scotland's NHS has paid out an eyewatering £11million in compensation to cancer patients whose treatment was delayed. Health boards have paid dozens of people since 2019-20 following lengthy waits for lifesaving diagnoses and operations.
“If they had put money into a drive to recruit and retain permanent staff then that list of patients would certainly have been much lower.” NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde was next in the league table at £2,832,903 and NHS Grampian were third with £1,125,159. NHS Ayrshire and Arran, NHS Forth Valley and NHS Lanarkshire all forked out more than half a million. NHS Dumfries and Galloway, NHS Borders, NHS Fife, NHS Highland and NHS Orkney all paid between £50,000 and £450,000.
Waiting times for treatment have also been missed in every single health board in Scotland. The most recent figures have been branded “a national disgrace”. Just 70.4 per cent of patients were treated within the timescale – a worsening since the last figures were released and 13.3 percentage points worse than the quarter before Covid arrived.
“Everyone understands that in an organisation the size of the NHS there will always be cases where mistakes are made. But the fact more than £11million has been paid out in the last five years illustrates the scale of the problem.
Jackie Baillie Labour Party NHS Forth Valley Scottish National Party Hamilton Shetland Orkney Galloway Borders Western Isles
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