From BBC Scotland in their long-running series ‘Scottish Labour says one or two cases is enough to damn NHS Scotland‘, we hear, today, of two patients with chronic pain who have felt the needed to travel to private pain clinics in England during the lock-down. There are roughly 1 million sufferers of chronic pain in Scotland: https://www.gov.scot/policies/illnesses-and-long-term-conditions/chronic-pain/#:~:text=Chronic%20pain%20affects%201%20in,the%20centre%20of%20their%20care. As far as I can see, there are no private pain clinics in Scotland. After the above headline, with the speech marks around ‘forced’ when they should be around ‘patients’, given the number actually reported, we read: Patients with chronic pain in Scotland … Continue reading No call for Freeman to resign as only 0.0002% of Scottish chronic pain patients pay for private care in English clinics