Today on BBC Scotland and to be returned to until the blood is drained from the story.
Only weeks ago and all day long.
And a 99% English story to fill in when required.
Only last November and repeated daily till we despaired of our NHS.
None of these stories informed us about the world out there in a way which would help us understand it, as it is in the lived experience of almost all of us. Tell us something useful and true!
Talking-up Scotland 'Albatraz' 
Tony Hall jumping ship , maybe changes will come , if they make it a paid for service we could be onto a winner , how many in Scotland would pay for it,
I for one wouldn’t be paying for their propaganda! .
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On CH4 news last week there was a brief report about the maternity cases at Telford and Shrewsbury NHS Trust. The number of cases has been revised up from 600 to 900. But it is only when you listen to the report by Victoria MacDonald that you realise why it was a relatively brief report. She had interviewed one of the mothers who has been campaigning for an inquiry and both mother and reporter ended up in tears so a simple verbal report was the result.
https://www.channel4.com/news/maternity-cases-being-investigated-at-telford-and-shrewsbury-nhs-trust-rises-to-900
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Telling contrast.
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BBC never mentioned it. Fallen off their radar. Yet it is important for everyone that there is a full inquiry and the results published. We need to know where the failings occurred because doctors, nurses, midwives were trained there and then moved on throughout the NHS in all parts of the UK. What were they taught? Was their training at fault? Questions that need answers.
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I absolutely take your point John, but there are specific issues about most of these. For instance that Millie Main had suffered a subarachnoid haemorrhage which is often fatal in any case (eg it is what killed Davie Cooper), but in particular for someone weakened by the effects of aggressive treatment for leukemia. This was the primary cause of death stated on the death certificate, though it did also mention infection (as number 3 I think). How often have you heard “subarachnoid haemorrhage” in any report of this case? What kind of person is Anus Sarwar who can exploit the understandable grief of the parents in this case (though whether GGCHB have acted as well as they should is questionable). Losing a child is a terrible thing – and as my own parents lost a son before I was born, I know what I am talking about – but is it not amoral for a politician to exploit this? That has never seen the light of day.
Likewise in the most recent example there were indicators that caused the staff to question the role of the mother – wrongly as it turned out. However,. let’s suppose that the staff were right, and that the mother succeeded in her aim to kill her child. We could just turn this story round and condemn the staff, but this time from the other pov. Yet the story is running as though staff have been too quick to intervene in what is a very difficult and uncertain situation. That is never reflected in any report I have seen.
In other words, John, it is not just the volume of cases – the regular drip, drip – but the suprerficial reporting that fails to engage with the complexity of these difficult cases. That they avoid this because it would get in the way of their narrative is I would expect certainly inevitable.
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Thanks. Intelligent stuff.
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