In Feeling the strain: What The Commonwealth Fund’s 2019 international
survey of general practitioners means for the UK, published yesterday, we read that Scotland’s GPs do feel stressed but at a significantly lower level than in England:
Reported stress levels vary across the UK. In England 62% of GPs said they are ‘extremely’ or ‘very’ stressed, compared with 52% in Wales, 48% in Scotland and 43% in Northern Ireland. (page 11)
Of particular importance, the links between A&E departments and GPs seem far more developed in NHS Scotland:
Within the UK, GPs in Scotland appear to have the fastest access to information from hospital specialists after an admission. 53% of GPs surveyed in Scotland say that they receive the information they need to continue to manage the patient within 48 hours of discharge from hospital. This statistically significant difference compares with an average of 20% within 48 hours in England, 18% in Wales, and 9% in Northern Ireland. (page 19)
Talking-up Scotland 'Albatraz' 
BBC Radio Scotland just before 8am after discussing Panic Buying Bill Whiteford “Do get in touch and let us know what you are panic buying”
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Might use that
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Because of the continual drip of NHS ‘failures’ on the BBC and other media, some people get more on edge and fear for their safety and, somewhat ironically, this makes some MORE likely to go to A&E for things which could be dealt with by themselves, by calling NHS 24, by speaking to their pharmacist, etc.
It is the equivalent of ‘panic buying’ – the media have stoked up fears so that people act in ways which are counter to the common good and, consequently, contrary to their own good.
Today’s ‘Panic buying’ piece on Good Morning Scotland was wilfully INFAMOUS – and I mean that literally.
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Alasdair
“The media have stoked up fears so that prople act in ways which are counter to the common good”
Absolutely, well said.
On drive time tonight they were IMO encouraging young people to think of themselves as mentally ill even suicidal.
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