"Hospital treatment takes longer in Wales"

 I am always suspicious of simple headlines like this, especially where the health services of England and Wales are concerned. Statistics are reckoned differently in GIG, and probably are more realistic. In this case, there are parameters which might be in play differently in the two countries. For instance, the burden of industrial disease is greater in Wales. Maybe the concentration on centralisation in Wales means greater distances between hospital and home. The statistic could be a warning and should be investigated, but let us not jump to conclusions about the quality of treatment.