This petition, the ‘Hanif Hundred’, based on, maybe, 100 signatures by, maybe 100 medics, maybe, or maybe their relatives sponsored, maybe, by the Scottish Labour MSP, Anas Sarwar has gone viral (sorry) in the Scottish media. Though an ‘open letter’, it seems it was only sent to BBC Scotland who quickly flashed it by the cameras, without the ‘signatures’ being revealed, before NOT posting it on their website for proper scrutiny. a friend captured this
I’ve emailed Sarah Smith, Royal Commissioner for British News in Scotland, for a peek at it.
It’s had a lot of attention compared to this one in 2014, despite it having more than 90 000 signatures and being professionally done by an impartial agency:
They seem to have missed that one.
Dr Hanif is currently having a proper go but his target of 500 seems a bit modest given that NHS Scotland has 160 000 employees:
Talking-up Scotland 'Albatraz' 
Having now seen the letter and the wording, this is at odds with the report/comment made by Ms Lisa Summers on GMS at the time the letter was reported on the radio.
At the time, I felt, that unusually for her, Ms Summers was trying to give a nuanced response, saying that the authors recognised that there was sufficient PPE, but that a ‘wealthy country’ like Scotland should be aspiring to better quality PPE. The authors, she claimed were asking that we should be using our technology to design even better equipment. Essentially, the writers were making a constructive proposal. I felt at the time that this provided some context.
However, having seen the letter I see nothing which would constitute the substance of Ms Summers’ report/comment. The final sentence of the letter – the phrase including the word ‘Herculean’ – featured in Ms Summers’ report, but I see nothing of the constructive criticism she was suggesting was the signatories’ intent.
Had she been in contact with some of the signatories who had expanded on the purpose of the letter?
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We need to see the full thing.
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Is Sarah Smith the BBC force behind the negative SNHS / SG on-line and TV reporting?
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A presence influencing the one below her?
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I know I’m in a minority when it comes to caring about such things, but the 38 Degrees petition refers to an “enquiry” rather than an “inquiry”. On that basis alone, I would pass it by. If the author can’t be bothered, why should I?
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