November 06, 2004
Even more [bad] media math
Patient care at Edinburgh Royal Infirmary costs more than at any other large teaching hospital in Scotland.
New figures reveal that around £2679 is spent caring for and treating each patient in the ERI - compared with just £1710 at the Aberdeen Royal Infirmary.
Now, there are apples and oranges and then there's these numbers... a comparison is only useful if you care comparing comparable things, and these numbers are too vague to compare. I don't know what's worse, the politicians using them to make a pseudo point [yes, PFI is expensive], or the fairly uncritical "reporting".
