Help Talking-up Scotland keep going Crowdfunder at: https://www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/help-talking-up-scotland-keep-going Or by direct bank transfer to: JOHN WATSON ROBERTSON Sort Code – 08-91-04 Account – 12266421 In July 2026 NHS Scotland’s full, consultant led, Type 1 emergency departments, 148 029 attended and 65% were treated within 4 hours. https://www.publichealthscotland.scot/healthcare-system/urgent-and-unscheduled-care/accident-and-emergency/interactive-charts/number-of-attendances/ In NHS England the equivalent figure was 61.7% treated within 4 hours. https://www.england.nhs.uk/statistics/statistical-work-areas/ae-waiting-times-and-activity/ That 3.3% difference seems at first small, but when you consider it in the context of the 148 000 attending, it matters. Had they lived in England, 3.3% of that 148 000, 4 884 would have not been treated in time. Help Talking-up Scotland keep going Crowdfunder at: https://www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/help-talking-up-scotland-keep-going Or by direct bank … Continue reading Nearly 5 000 Scots treated in A&E within 4 hours who might not have been had they lived in England as demand climbs above pre-Pandemic level

Help Talking-up Scotland keep going Crowdfunder at: https://www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/help-talking-up-scotland-keep-going Or by direct bank transfer to: JOHN WATSON ROBERTSON Sort Code – 08-91-04 Account – 12266421 From Psychological therapies waiting times Quarter ending June 2026 published today: In the quarter ending June 2026: 80.7% of people started treatment within 18 weeks of referral, which is an increase from 78.7% in the previous quarter, and from 78.5% for the quarter ending June 2025. The Scottish Government standard states that 90% of people should start their treatment within 18 weeks of referral to PT. The chart below illustrates performance in relation to this target over the past 4 years. 19,389 people started … Continue reading More than 80% begin psychological therapies within target, for 17th quarter in a row despite increased demand

Help Talking-up Scotland keep going Crowdfunder at: https://www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/help-talking-up-scotland-keep-going Or by direct bank transfer to: JOHN WATSON ROBERTSON Sort Code – 08-91-04 Account – 12266421 From Cancelled planned operations Month ending 31 July 2026, published today, the above graph, and: There were 25,605 operations planned to take place across NHS Scotland. This is 0.2% lower (-39) than the number planned in July 2025 (25,644). However, over the course of the last 12 months, from August 2025 to July 2026 (308,311), there was a 6.2% increase (+18,082) compared to the previous 12 months (290,229). This is consistent with the trend of generally increasing numbers of planned operations since March 2021. … Continue reading 98% 0f operations done on time despite more than 6% increase in demand

Help Talking-up Scotland keep going Crowdfunder at: https://www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/help-talking-up-scotland-keep-going Or by direct bank transfer to: JOHN WATSON ROBERTSON Sort Code – 08-91-04 Account – 12266421 From LA Jolla News, yesterday: Millions of pounds of spent nuclear fuel will remain in storage at the San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station for decades — and potentially much longer — raising concerns among experts about the long-term health and environmental risks of storing radioactive waste so close to San Diego. The spent nuclear fuel provided power for two generations of Californians, but its resulting waste will remain hazardous for thousands of years, according to James Day, a professor of geosciences at the Scripps Institution of … Continue reading Nuclear waste would remain dangerous for 2 000 generations of Scots based on US prof’s prediction

Help Talking-up Scotland keep going Crowdfunder at: https://www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/help-talking-up-scotland-keep-going Or by direct bank transfer to: JOHN WATSON ROBERTSON Sort Code – 08-91-04 Account – 12266421 Crisis? According to the Express, 39,078 working days lost to long-term officer absence in Q1 of 2026/27 – what percentage of all the working days available across all the police officers in Scotland, is this? Roughly 3.7% of all available officer working days in that quarter, using the standard 8-hour-day equivalent that Police Scotland and most UK forces use for absence stats. https://www.scottishdailyexpress.co.uk/news/scottish-news/fury-3000-scots-police-officers-37611955 How that figure is reached Is that particularly high and concerning? Let’s compare with nurses. The overall absence rate among police … Continue reading No cop crisis as only 3.7% of total days is lost and nurses are absent more

Help Talking-up Scotland keep going Crowdfunder at: https://www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/help-talking-up-scotland-keep-going Or by direct bank transfer to: JOHN WATSON ROBERTSON Sort Code – 08-91-04 Account – 12266421 Across much of our media today, a ‘UK tour’ to raise awareness of violence and knife crime. If they’re sp keen ot raise awareness, the might share this stuff: And why? Help Talking-up Scotland keep going Crowdfunder at: https://www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/help-talking-up-scotland-keep-going Or by direct bank transfer to: JOHN WATSON ROBERTSON Sort Code – 08-91-04 Account – 12266421 Continue reading Media operating in Scotland report UK tour to raise awareness of violence and knife crime, in England & Wales