I regularly use NHS ER (not personally, fortunately) and it is a joke. The hospital local to me is notorious for fudging waiting time numbers, the longest wait

I regularly use NHS ER (not personally, fortunately) and it is a joke. The hospital local to me is notorious for fudging waiting time numbers, the longest wait I have had is 36 hours, and even when it is literally deserted it will still be 6-8 hours...I have no idea why or how (there are tons of staff, quite what they are doing is unclear). Also, I live in Scotland where the NHS has been getting more money for a while...still awful. The NHS drop massive wedges of cash on vanity projects (always over budget, usually issues because of poor project management) but never hit waiting time targets. Definitely, there is an issue with care and old people having to stay in hospital...but there is also something far deeper (my area is rural, total population of 30-40k...the NHS just dropped £75m on a ten-ward hospital...I go there four or five times a week, 75-80% of the people you see walking around are staff). I don't know what the solution is, I just know that other countries do it better and they have larger private sectors.