Virtually 70,000 Scottish NHS operations have been carried
out in personal hospitals because the SNP got here to energy, figures present.
They peaked at 10,420 in 2014 and, after a steep decline
in 2016, numbers rose once more final 12 months to four,360 – up from 2,707 when the SNP
got here to energy, based on figures reported by the Scotsman.
Since 2007, 68,175 NHS-funded operations have been
carried out by the unbiased sector in Scotland – a median of virtually 6,000
a 12 months.
Scottish Conservatives well being spokesman Miles Briggs stated
the figures present that the unbiased sector has been propping up the SNP’s
well being service for years.
“Even with the unbiased sector bailing them out, the
SNP’s mismanagement of the well being service is inflicting sufferers to undergo
unnecessarily,” he argued.
A spokesperson for Scottish Well being Secretary Jeane
Freeman stated: “That is determined stuff from a Scottish Tory get together whose tax
plans would slash greater than half a billion kilos from Scotland’s NHS.
“The fact is the 68,000 determine is a small fraction of
the 12 million procedures carried out over the identical interval.”
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