According to the 2024 King’s Fund and Nuffield Trust poll of NHS public satisfaction, people in Wales are most dissatisfied with the NHS at 72%, compared with 59% in England and 60% in Scotland. The difference between Wales and the other parts of the UK are statistically significant.
Nuffield Trust analysis cites the Welsh First Minister, Vaughan Gething’s resignation after only four months in the job and the fact that waiting times hit successive record highs last year, with performance across several measures being consistently worse in Wales than in England and Scotland.
Commenting, the Welsh Conservative Shadow Cabinet Secretary for Health and Social Care, James Evans MS said:
“After years of failure, Labour has driven satisfaction with our health service into the ground.
“People in Wales are clearly and rightly fed up to the back teeth with Labour’s atrocious mismanagement of the Welsh NHS, with nearly three quarters now dissatisfied.
“The Welsh Conservatives have a plan to fix the Welsh NHS and improve outcomes, with a focus on easing restrictions to encourage cross-border and cross-sector collaboration in the short-term, with a new and substantial workforce plan to boost staff numbers in the long-term.”
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