In week-ending 1st December, 81.2% of attendances at NHS Scotland A&E services were seen and resulted in a subsequent admission, transfer or discharge within 4 hours https://www.isdscotland.org/Health-Topics/Emergency-Care/Publications/2019-12-10/Summary-Weekly/index.asp In NHS England the figure was 67.89% https://inews.co.uk/news/health/nhs-england-covering-up-true-scale-of-12-hour-hospital-waits-1335856 These are RCEM figures released to the media. NHS England has not yet openly published data for November, never mind December. The Scottish figure 81.2% is thus 19.6% better than 67.89%. The gap may be even greater as NHS England restart the clock once the patient has been admitted whereas NHS Scotland count from arrival in A&E. https://inews.co.uk/news/health/nhs-england-covering-up-true-scale-of-12-hour-hospital-waits-1335856 Continue reading NHS Scotland A&E at least 20% better than NHS England

Scotland has more small businesses than at any time in the last ten years and the number is growing with 396 today compared to 357 in 2010, a 10.9% increase under SNP administration. https://www.fsb.org.uk/media-centre/press-releases/figures-released-ahead-of-small-business-saturday-show-more-scottish-firms-per-capita Might the Small Business Bonus Scheme since 2008 have helped? Thanks to a pariamentary question yesterday, we can put some figures on the debate: The total overall savings to businesses as a result of the Small Business Bonus Scheme covering the period 2008-09 – 2018-19 are £1.79 billion. The estimated savings for 2019-20 will add a further £272 million. 120,420 properties received Small Business Bonus Scheme … Continue reading Why Scotland has 11% more small businesses?

Rennie and Cole-Hamilton being ‘goosed’ while campaigning hard. Rennie’s well-known irresistible appeal to sheeple? In a response to a FOISA request last week, we heard: http://www.sps.gov.uk/FreedomofInformation/FOI-6784.aspx We know from sources that most FOISA requests to the Scottish Prison Service come from the Lib Dems, as they seek muck that they can spread in the Reporting Scotland studios, so we can be fairly sure that they are behind this attempt to undermine the therapetic service based on dogs. Dogs as any owner will know, can detect a bad yin straight-off. Continue reading Are Zoophobic Scottish Lib Dems trying to undermine prison therapetic regimes?

https://talkingupscotlandtwo.com/2019/11/12/trainee-radiologist-numbers-in-scotland-up-75-in-only-5-years-to-meet-demand/ https://talkingupscotlandtwo.com/2019/12/06/norovirus-infection-rates-have-soared-across-the-uk-except-in-scotland-so-first-minister-why-have-you-not-been-able-to-increase-norovirus-infection-levels-after-12-years-in-power/ Note: The above was read by 5 401! Our biggest hit for some time. Why? I’ve no idea. https://renews.biz/56880/ssen-submits-scots-grid-masterplan/#.Xe9Kw8zix44.twitter https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/election-2019-50543903 Doesn’t the above deserve and bit of debate more than some of the other posts here? I’m disappointed. AND THE MOST POPULAR TWEET TOPIC: BBC Scotland! Continue reading Trainee radiologists, NoNorovirushere, free electricity, hospital car parking….today’s tweets

Headlined in the Telegraph yesterday and some time before NHS England will release even their November figures, here’s what the Royal College of Emergency Medicine (RCEM) reported: RCEM data shows that in the first week of December over 5,000 patients waited for longer than 12 hours in the Emergency Departments of 50 Trusts and Boards across the UK. The sample of trusts and boards from across the UK is the equivalent to a third of the acute bed base in England. https://www.rcem.ac.uk/RCEM/News/News_2019/Latest_RCEM_data_shows_true_scale_of_the_number_of_patients_waiting_longer_than_12_hours_in_A_E.aspx In Scotland, 184 patients waited more than 12 hours in the week ending 24th November. The NHS Scotland … Continue reading You are MORE THAN TWICE as likely to spend more than 12 hours waiting in A&E in NHS England than in NHS Scotland

From Insider today: ‘Business activity in Scotland’s private sector rose for the first time since August, according to a new report. The latest Royal Bank of Scotland Purchasing Managers’ Index (PMI) recorded an increase in private-sector output in November. The fastest increase in workforce numbers since April and a small rise in orders for the service sector were said to be key to the growth.’ https://www.insider.co.uk/news/signs-growth-private-sector-first-21056477 So despite 10 years of Tory misrule and Brexit instability, SNP rule is associated with underlying robustness. See this evidence from 2019 only: Scots of the Arctic! Scottish Government forges ahead with Arctic links to help … Continue reading Private sector workforce increase fastest for 7 months!

https://talkingupscotlandtwo.com/2019/09/25/nhs-scotland-beats-drug-and-alcohol-treatment-target-for-three-years-and-reporting-scotland-ignores-it-for-the-same-period/ https://talkingupscotlandtwo.com/2019/12/05/scotland-only-uk-nation-where-the-alcohol-related-death-rate-dropped-this-century/ Continue reading Labour lies, Tory brass neck and Kevin McKenna

Click to access TheTimes_191203_Scotland_VI_Results_w2_W.pdf Ten YouGov sub-polls throughout November, on Westminster voting intentions, averaged 43.5% support for the SNP and the above, with 1 002 adults for 29th Nov to Dec 3rd, puts them at 44%. https://talkingupscotlandtwo.com/2019/12/04/yougov-sub-poll-puts-snp-at-52-and-november-average-at-43-5/ This suggests remarkable resilience given the propagandised media coverage by, especially, BBC Scotland News. Continue reading Full YouGov Scottish poll confirms SNP strong at 44% for Westminster and 46% for Holyrood

Using trafficestimate.com the following pro-Indy blogs received these estimated visitor figures: Wings over Scotland 118 600 Wee Ginger Dug 57 300 Common Space 49 000 Talking-up Scotland 48 800 Gerry Hassan 22 900 Scot Goes Pop 15 900 Peter Bell not enough data I’m getting ‘File not found (404)’ for Grouse Beater. I haven’t included Craig Murray at nearly a quarter of a million because I’m putting him in another league and because most of his stuff is UK or globally-oriented. I have included Peter Bell because he once sneered at my puny twitter presence of 3 000 against his … Continue reading Talking-up Scotland pushes for third place from fifth last year as bigger Indybloggers take eye off ball

Above, in suitably British pink, Talking-Up Scotland’s global penetration. Since the 25th August, when I archived Thought Control Scotland and launched the less Marmitey Talking-Up Scotland, things have shrunk a bit (the blog!). Some readers thought the name change might actually boost the audience because they had often hesitated to share posts, fearing they would be thought paranoid. Here’s the state of play under the rule of thought control in the first half of 2019: Ominous signs of collapse despite talking-up? And in 2018: And in 2017 we still had Greenland: Of course it may not have been anything to … Continue reading The Rise and Fall of the Thought Control Scotland and Talking-Up Scotland Empires