Only months after the report of at least 42 avoidable baby deaths and more than 50 newborns suffering avoidable brain damage in an English hospital, Reporting Scotland presented an extended report into an Elgin hospital. The report finds flaws only in procedures but NO cases of actual harm. Once more, Reporting Scotland misinform their viewers and now panic those about to give birth in Elgin.
In a long and unbalanced report, only negative soundbites are offered and disproportionate time is given to the views of non-professionals, to express, no doubt genuine but unsubstantiated, feelings of anxiety about the hospital. Only at the very end do we hear that there is no evidence of any adverse outcomes for patients. To leave this key piece of information to the very end and presented as an afterthought, is to seriously distort the information in the report. This can only harm staff and patient morale with potentially damaging consequences for safety.
At no point is reference made to the situation in Shrewsbury as context. To do so, would, of course, have made their assessment of the Elgin report as ‘damning’, frankly ridiculous.
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Of course they did , after they subjected everyone to their vile damming of the SNHS and the SNP , not to mention vulnerable parents , indescribable !.₩
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Nothing is too low for BBS Scotland to stoop to.
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It’s really getting quite weird now, isn’t it? – This crazy level of attack propaganda wasn’t on show until well into the Inyref 1 campaign. Do the beeb know something we don’t? – Is there going to be an Indyref 2 this year after all? – I had rather assumed time had run out – maybe I’m wrong and Johnson is going to do the unexpected and ‘demand’ an Indyref by late autumn. I give up trying to second guess the SNP Baaaaad in overdrive show that beeb Scotland and ‘Jocko’ press are engaging in. Will just try and keep my powder dry and do the stuff that I can do – and try not to be deflected by any of the rubbish. Thanks for keeping ploughing through the garbage on our behalf John – much appreciated.
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They also did the same thing with the report on period poverty giving a completely distorted picture. Only at the end did they mention that the SG had put sanitary products in schools and even then they made it sound like a disjointed policy. Note thanks to the SG sanitary products are available in schools, colleges, universities and hospitals.
It has got to the point that we know how the reports will be framed even before they are broadcast such is the predictability of the BBC and its SNP bad bias
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We just can’t allow too much unalloyed good being attributed to this SG!
I’m pleased that after her longstanding advocacy Monica Lennon’s bill for universal provision is receiving support but you’re right, we should not forget the antecedents to this new legislation.
Source: https://theconversation.com/ending-period-poverty-scotlands-plan-for-free-menstrual-products-shatters-taboos-and-leads-a-global-movement-103138
“In August 2018, Scotland made history as the country leading a global movement to end period poverty. The government pledged to invest £5.2m to provide free menstrual products in schools, colleges and universities across the country. Period supplies will be available in toilets, just as paper and soap are already provided. The scheme’s objective is to ensure that all students have access to the pads, tampons and products they need, regardless of financial means. …..
At the same time, a government-funded pilot in Aberdeen provided 1,000 women with period supplies, leading to the introduction of a £500,000 trial across several Scottish cities. These trials were aimed at women in low-income households to help alleviate the consequences of period poverty.”
In her Guardian article on period poverty on 5 Feb 2018 Libby Brooks, the paper’s Scotland correspondent, acknowledged the research by Women for Independence and the campaigning by Gillian Martin MSP on this subject together with Monica Lennon.
(As an aside: I seem to remember back in 2012 a leader of SLAB – Johann Lamont – questioned the merits of universalism in social policy. The John Reid Foundation at the time (28 Sept. 2012) put her right: “If Scottish Labour wants to open up a debate on universalism, I welcome it. It’ll be a brief debate and universalism will win. Again.”)
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