Only another cosy Reporting Scotland/Herald feed headlined this morning, not reported anywhere else in the MSM, Dr Iain Kennedy, leader of the doctors’ union the BMA:
48% say they are afraid to speak up.
We’ve been here before so many times with trade union surveys based on tiny, self-selecting, samples, utterly unreliable, but not challenged by journalists.
There are around 9 700 GPs and hospital consultants in Scotland.
The Herald, laughably, write that the survey ‘examined 592 doctors.’
Examined? I think not. They sent an email to the above 9 700 and perhaps even to the junior doctors.
Only 592 responded, 6.1%.
48% of those said they were afraid to raise concerns, 2.9%.
In the absence of responses, we cannot say the other 97.1% are not afraid to report but neither can we on the basis of a self-selecting, small sample, say they are afraid.
Dr Kennedy, not really a ‘senior medical figure’, a trade union convenor, is a regular and, in social media, disturbing. See this:
Talking-up Scotland 'Albatraz' 
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Thanks so much for all your excellent information…,. Much required.
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div>My concerns lie with the state of the Scottish Ambulance Service. I learned of its very real deficiencies some two years ago when I had a heart attack. It was only with the actions of my husband putting me
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Thanks Alice
So sorry to hear of your heart attack and a slow ambulance response.
More widely however, https://talkingupscotlandtwo.com/2023/04/03/anger-as-hundreds-of-thousands-of-brits-wait-far-longer-for-an-ambulance-than-they-do-in-scotland/
John
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Hi John
Many thanks for your speedy response. My response to the information you provided is that it does not reflect the reality of on the ground events. I am puzzled as to why the wait for an ambulance does not appear to resonate with those who have the power to do something about it. I am sure folk in Scotland have died who might not have, while waiting for an ambulance .
The struggle for some understanding and compassion for those folk waiting hours for an ambulance continues. Best regards Alice
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Ambulances were held up by Covid. Precautions or more people would have died of Covid. Only 1 in 10 survive a heart attack. Get medical help as soon as possible.
Humza promising Doctors an offer they cannot refuse. Nurses have settled.
Westminster increasing military spending £5Billion. Instead of increasing NHS funding. Killing people rather than saving them.
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