Nicola Sturgeon accused of misleading Holyrood over bedblocking

[BetterTogether]

Labour has accused the Scottish first minister of misleading parliament over hospital bed blocking statistics.
Nicola Sturgeon told MSPs a target to reduce six week delays in discharging patients had been delivered.
But Labour said it had not been met for more than three years, and called for her to amend the record.
Ms Sturgeon's office said she would not be revising her remarks because the six-week target had been met in the past.
Delayed discharge - sometimes referred to as bed blocking - is when a patient is not released from hospital despite being clinically well enough to be discharged, often because of a lack of care of care services.
Ms Sturgeon faced criticism over the issue during first minister's questions in the Scottish Parliament, with Scottish Labour leader Kezia Dugdale saying that people had remained in hospital for a total of 612,000 days last year when they were well enough to go home.
'Extra support'She said Ms Sturgeon had told the SNP conference in 2011 that patients spent 200,000 days in a hospital bed when they did not need to.
Ms Dugdale added: "That means it has more than trebled under the SNP government since this first minister admitted there was something badly wrong. So, by any measure that is unacceptable.
"That is thousands of patients, the majority of whom are elderly, ready to go back home or into the community but can't because the extra support they need just isn't there.
"She also claimed that delayed discharge got worse during the peak of summer despite Health Secretary Shona Robison saying in February that she wanted to "completely eradicate" the problem.


http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotlan...itics-34352262


You couldn't make it up, really, seriously they've hit targets well they did way back in 2012 a few years ago meanwhile the figures are way up. But don't worry about that what's 600,000 between friends eh !
Never mind the figures have actually trebled that's just inconvenient because we hit the target in 2012.

[rob murray]

Labour has accused the Scottish first minister of misleading parliament over hospital bed blocking statistics.
Nicola Sturgeon told MSPs a target to reduce six week delays in discharging patients had been delivered.
But Labour said it had not been met for more than three years, and called for her to amend the record.
Ms Sturgeon's office said she would not be revising her remarks because the six-week target had been met in the past.
Delayed discharge - sometimes referred to as bed blocking - is when a patient is not released from hospital despite being clinically well enough to be discharged, often because of a lack of care of care services.
Ms Sturgeon faced criticism over the issue during first minister's questions in the Scottish Parliament, with Scottish Labour leader Kezia Dugdale saying that people had remained in hospital for a total of 612,000 days last year when they were well enough to go home.
'Extra support'She said Ms Sturgeon had told the SNP conference in 2011 that patients spent 200,000 days in a hospital bed when they did not need to.
Ms Dugdale added: "That means it has more than trebled under the SNP government since this first minister admitted there was something badly wrong. So, by any measure that is unacceptable.
"That is thousands of patients, the majority of whom are elderly, ready to go back home or into the community but can't because the extra support they need just isn't there.
"She also claimed that delayed discharge got worse during the peak of summer despite Health Secretary Shona Robison saying in February that she wanted to "completely eradicate" the problem.


http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotlan...itics-34352262


You couldn't make it up, really, seriously they've hit targets well they did way back in 2012 a few years ago meanwhile the figures are way up. But don't worry about that what's 600,000 between friends eh !
Never mind the figures have actually trebled that's just inconvenient because we hit the target in 2012.

Robison is a clown and sturgeion a proven liar...never mind I bet ya that indy2 will be raised over the next week or so so to hide this issue and Frank Kopels "loophole

[BetterTogether]

Not so sure Indy2 is really on the cards after the recent comments from Sturgeon and the party hierarchy and yesterday's feeble attempts to get Labour or the Lib Dems to call it for them ( no really you couldn't make it up )

Then we have this lovely front page which really won't please them one bit or make them inclined to run the gauntlet again.