Thanks once more to Dorothy for alerting me to this:
Note the wee print under the photo – 85 dangerously substandard maternity units in NHS England.
The ‘Scottish’ media are quiet. If they had something, they’d be all over it like nappy rash.
I searched for ‘Scotland maternity inspections substandard‘ – only English ‘hits’.
I searched the Healthcare Improvement Scotland site – nothing.
I tried ‘Scotland maternity hospital inspection concerns‘ – bingo!
As in the headline, only one minor concern in 2017 and another in 2013 but hey, using Reporting Scotland editorial standards, that’ll do. Get Gulhane or Baillie on the phone.
Talking-up Scotland 'Albatraz' 
… but how many Scottish ferries have poorly maintained maternity Units ? We are not being told – why ?
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For Gods sake don’t tempt Martin Williams, he will be interviewing concerned mums-to-be on the Largs to Millport ferry in preparation for one of his “exclusives” 🙂
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TO SAY SCOTLANDS MEDIA ARE ‘QUIET’
Is little wonder
They are all English funded and so the poodles of Scottish media
Just do as THEYRE Masters Tell them
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In August of this year it was reported that “Health board officials from across Wales have been summoned to a crisis meeting with First Minister Mark Drakeford over spending cuts that will have a serious impact on the NHS. The meeting, which will take place in mid August, comes as practitioners within the health service become increasingly concerned about how it will cope as inflationary pressures continue to mount” (Source Nation Cymru online).
Meanwhile in ANY and ALL televised news, radio phone ins , debate shows and also numerous throw away comments by some political pundit you have never heard of state how apparently the SNP have destroyed the NHS in Scotland…..to give the impression that it is true and also , as an event, unique only as an action supposedly done by the SNP and also as a supposed reality…….as we in Scotland are continued to be so badly served by the media here (and elsewhere) ..indeed tis relentless how much this NON fact is promoted as an attack upon the SNP but where the NHS failings of the Tory and Labour parties elsewhere is somehow never noted…..aka IGNORED here via our media and t’others.
BTW last night Andrew Bowie and Robert Buckland stated losses in by-elections are expected via those parties who are in government and thus are not that significant or a true reflection of what may happen in a GE ……Labour’s Jonathan Ashworth said to Andrew Bowie…..”come on this is what our PR’s tell us to say….I’ve been where you are and said the same”……really…..does that then INCLUDE Scotland as in the By-election in Rutherglen H & W……where Labour (and Tories) summation of that result was that the SNP vote had collapsed and looks as if their ‘dominance’ was coming to an end in Scotland……or is it another case of RULES for them as UK parties and RULES for the SNP in by-election results meaning DIFFERENT things…..seems so.
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Gulhane and Baillie?
Surely on standby in the BBC canteen?
“Citizen Journalists” deputised by the Hootsmon and Herod to replace actual journalists paid off over the years.
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These Tories and labour so-called political candidates
ARE MORE TO BE PITIED
THEY FAIL TO SPEAK RHE TRUTH WHICH INTURNS
GETS THEM LABELLED AS LIARS , CHEATS AND DECEIVERS
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The other morning on radio scotland, the female presenter (?) was taken to task by a military intelligence officer she was interviewing. She was told that by not using the word terrorist to describe Hamas and their actions, it softened the image of Hamas in listeners minds “and once an image is formed it is very difficult to change it, MI5 know this.”
I felt this was “Granny being told how to suck eggs.”
I also wondered if her cohort, Martin Geissler would have kept as stum the instruction.
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A late comment linked to this article. The Sunday National today has an article about “maternity service woes for mothers” in rural Scotland: We’re Forgotten About Because We’re Rural. This is researched by none other than one Lauren Crosby Medlicott, of that “editorially independent, not-for-profit co-operative run by its journalists and subscribers” (their words not mine!) research outfit, The Ferret.
Obviously, in a week when we learn that 2/3 of England’s maternity units are dangerously substandard, daddy Herald has felt the need to publish a report on maternity services in rural Scotland as a reminder that we’re “much worser than England” in this aspect of maternity care – at least that’s my cynical view of it.
I don’t want to critique the report here, but note that the claim by campaigners referred to in the article that “what women in Caithness need is (maternity) services in their communities and the right to give birth safely in the place where they live” suggests the triumph of apple pie aspiration over medical prudence.
That this is published in The National – and is only one of a regular drip of “reports” from The Ferret in this newspaper- has prompted me to question the sanity of my continuing to support this “independence supporting” organ.
Helping my decision-making is another article on the same page headed ” Designer: My dad died due to lack of PPE. ” First para: “Scottish fashion designer has said his father died “very unnecessarily” due to PPE shortages in during the Covid pandemic.”
There’s no mention of where he died, so immediately the impression is that it must have been somewhere in Scotland, and presumably in a hospital. Only by struggling through the remainder of the article can you find that his father sadly passed away in hospital having acquired Covid after a routine operation, and make an assumption it might have been in England as it talks of the UK government, and talking to the Cabinet Office about home-sewing of scrubs and gowns for hospitals.
I don’t think this article is intended to confuse the Scottish reader, but it is obviously an article for an English audience borrowed by The National to fill some space due to the Scottish connection…and ends up confusing (and irritating) this Scottish reader!
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