In the quarter ending December 2019, 79% of adults started treatment within 18 weeks, up from 78% in 2018.
Reporting Scotland made an editorial decision not to report this but rather, after considering the 2.4% decrease, from December 2018 and the 0.1% decrease from the previous quarter, in those children and young people who started treatment within 18 weeks, decided to report only on those who had waited more than a year and opened with:
‘Twice as many youngsters are waiting over a year for mental health services than a year ago,’
The figures offered were 322 in 2018 and 645 in 2019. Twice as many but only 16.6% of the 3884 referred. I must grudgingly congratulate their little research rodents for finding these figures. After 15 minutes of searching I couldn’t.
Time was then spent with the mothers and observing a few of the children. I have no professional expertise here but are these cases where the mental health problems are at the milder end?
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Remember ‘Vote No Borders’ the ‘grassroots’ anti-Indy campaign funded by City of London ‘dark money’ and given huge tranches of beeb airtime in 2014? They even released a single record (it was a ‘Miss’ rather than a ‘Hit’ for those able to recall Juke Box Jury – chart topping it weren’t).
Where are Vote No Borders when you need them? – Apparently Johnson has pulled Ukania (and, by current default, Scotland with it) out of the European Early Warning System for epidemics. Truly, we HAVE to get out of this place – It’s britnatery gorn maaahd. Link and snippet below:
https://www.politico.eu/article/brexit-sets-uk-apart-coronavirus-nhs-eu/
LONDON — Brexit means Brexit, even when it comes to coronavirus.
The U.K. is bracing for an increase in confirmed cases of those infected but on the day it published its “action plan” to combat an outbreak, it was abundantly clear London does not want to lean on the EU to help coordinate its response.
While still paying into the EU budget and able to access EU infectious disease databases until the end of the transition period, the U.K. is officially out of the club, without representation — and no exception has been made for the growing international health crisis, the first such event to test the post-Brexit relationship.
Health Secretary Matt Hancock is not attending — and has not been invited to — meetings of EU health ministers to coordinate the Continent’s response and there are also doubts over the U.K.’s continued membership of the EU’s Early Warning and Response System (EWRS) for pandemics.
As Prime Minister Boris Johnson and his health secretary laid out the details of the U.K.’s strategy, several health experts voiced concern about the apparent lack of cooperation with the EU. “Not taking the best public health approach for political reasons is foolish,” said Clare Wenham, assistant professor of global health policy at the London School of Economics and Political Science.
Martin McKee, professor of European public health at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, who co-authored a paper in January warning about the possible loss of access to EU health protection mechanisms, described the lack of cooperation as “incomprehensible.”
“Given that viruses and bacteria pay no attention to international boundaries, it is incomprehensible that you would put up borders to international efforts to control them,” he told POLITICO.
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Meanwhile Baroness Bull – No – Not the one you’re thinking of (no Buffalo riders here) – This Baroness Bull is the rather wonderful former Principal Ballerina Deborah Bull who sits as a cross-bencher and is the Patron of the Osteoporosis Society. On their behalf she is pushing in the HoL’s for NHS England and NHS Wales to come into line with NHS Scotland and introduce a Fracture Liaison Service (shown to save lives). Curious how – with all that scrutiny they selflessly devote to matters NHS Scotland – beeb Scotland have managed to miss this story. Link and snippet below:
https://www.politicshome.com/news/uk/health-and-care/social-care/opinion/royal-osteoporosis-society/110194/healthcare-inequity
Hip fractures are experienced by over 66,000 people a year and take up one in 45 hospital beds in England and Northern Ireland, and one in 33 beds in Wales. They are preventable when the less traumatic fractures that precede them, such as fractures to the wrist, are promptly acted on and people with osteoporosis are provided with bone protecting treatment.
It’s therefore deeply concerning that healthcare inequalities across the country mean that, while everyone living in Scotland and Northern Ireland has access to a fracture liaison service (FLS) to reduce the risk of them experiencing a hip fracture, people in England and Wales are not so fortunate. The result is that in areas where there is no FLS, hospitals continue to experience higher-than-average mortality rates for patients who have sustained hip fractures.
That’s what we’re achieving with Devo – just think what beneficial changes we could achieve with Indy?
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