Claim 1 - There are more working in our NHS than ever before, with over 10,000 more people
Claim 1 = False
There are actually 6,633 more people working in the NHS but this figure also include those Health Care Professionals who are working in our prison service,agency nursing and a category classed as 'not assimilated/unknown'.
There are no figures for the amount of HCPs working in prisons so I cant subtract the number from the overall totals but I was able to subtract agency nurses.
Claim 2 - The are over 2,000 additional qualified nurses and midwives
Claim 2 = False
If we added all staff that are on bands 1-9 then there are an additional 1,873 staff, still nowhere near the "over 2,000" claim. However if we take the actual number of "qualified nurses and midwifes" the total amount comes to 960 , however 70 of these are 'unknown' banding and therefore the figures could be lower if those 70 are >band 5. I have no idea where the misleading "over 2,000" figure comes from; perhaps the SNP did a 'Lintern' and added the last three months of 2015 to hike up the totals instead of taking the figures from September of each year??
Claim 3 - There are over 2,500 more doctors
Claim 3 = False
Keeping in mind that GPs are not included in ISD 'overall workforce stats' as they are not NHS 'employees' and therefore not on the HR system, then the total amount of additional doctors is 1,989.
I guess we should be thankful that at least there is an increase rather than a decrease but given that our ageing population has increased by 17% and due to rise to 25% over the coming years there is simply not enough staff or indeed the right kind of specialist staff to cope; under the SNP government we have seen decreases in specialised areas e.g.:
Acute ⇓ 140 nurses
Geriatric doctors ⇓ 12.4%
Oncology ⇓ 10.1%
Orthopedics ⇓ 7.7%
So there you go folks, the SNP can spin NHS stats just as much as the Tories can.
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