The day after the independence vote, rather than fulfill his pledge to make Holyrood the most powerful devolved administration in the world, Cameron implemented EVEL. That's your English parliament right there.
As for the SG performance in education, health - it is head and shoulders above the English equivalents. Drugs are a disgrace, I grant you but the roots are complex and go back to even before Thatcher did her utmost to destroy the things she didn't like - IE the working class.