Update: Dr Gould seems determined never to reveal that she is not a local but her partner is from Glasgow.
From BBC Scotland today:
A wheelchair user says she has had to sleep in her van in a hospital car park while her husband is treated for an illness.
Dr Caroline Gould said she could not find suitable accommodation in Inverness due to visitor demand for hotel rooms after Denis was transferred to the city’s Raigmore Hospital from their local hospital in Skye.
Mr Gould had expected to be discharged home on Tuesday, but the required care package discussed three weeks ago was still not in place.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cn0qg8y591po
Not declared is Dr Gould’s long-term role as an activist for access. She is not an ‘ordinary josephine‘ stumbled on by an alert reporter, but someone who contacted BBC Scotland to feed them a story which could then be used to criticise NHS Scotland’s hospital discharge performance and by association that of the Scottish Government.
In July 2016, Dr Gould spoke to the Scottish Affairs Committee at Westminster (plenty suitable hotel rooms there?) on behalf of Skye and Lochalsh Access Panel.
On 14 December 2020, she told BBC Scotland she couldn’t get food during the pandemic.
On 22 October 2022, she told the P&J that the ‘SNP’s National Care Service must focus on rural needs.’
I have no objection to the above campaigning but media should be transparent on sources.
Finally, to enable readers/viewers to understand if there is a particular problem with delayed discharges in Inverness, what is the percentage?
Only 3% of 21 121 discharges were delayed in 2022/2023 in Highland Region. The Scottish average is 3%. In Edinburgh and Shetland it was 6%.
Update: At the end of a long Buzzfeed News report in which Dr Gould’s origins are never revealed, there is one comment:
acw73 years ago
I find it incredible that a person with such disabilities would burden the health board of NHS Highland with such demands and needs, and to find that a person from Glasgow would actually call theirselves a local. Over the last 70 odd years I’ve seen the Highlands deteriorate quite a bit, with the amount of white settlers that have moved in, we’ve always had crappy roads and facilities but when incomers complain about facilities that gets right up my nose. I remembered the old days when you would see an elderly woman with their downs syndrome child on the bus and I would wonder what country that they were from, as no one spoke about them. Things have changed quite a bit, as that downs syndrome child would now have the facility of a invalid car with benefits with the taxpayer footing the bill, and that is why a lot of disable people are moving all over the Scotland. Its bad enough to find decent facilities for the healthy as it took over 5 years to build toilets in Invergordon.
https://www.buzzfeed.com/hilarymitchell/this-is-what-its-like-to-live-on-a-remote-scottish-island
Talking-up Scotland 
I am convinced that BBCScorchedland and STV have a dedicated SNPBaaad unit with a 24 hour Toll-free line for callers to blacken the reputation of the Scottish NHS in a morally dubious attempt to undermine the Scottish Government .
How else do you explain the obscure , and at times arcane , cases that are reported as widespread evidence of SNP Government failure to provide a perfect Health Service while under extreme pressure .
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I wonder I wonder where Mrs Gould is from ? Sure she lives in sky but where is she from
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Why does it matter where she is ‘from’? If she lives in Scotland and, presumably pays Council tax and other taxes in Scotland, then she is a ‘Scot’.
My concept of independence is a ‘civic’ one and not a ‘blood and soil nationalist one’ and it was the civic version we were voting for in 2014.
The media and the unionist parties mendaciously presented it as ‘hating the English’ and, it is one of the discredited attack lines they continue to use.
As Professor Robertson says, Mrs Gould is entitled to make her demands for better access for people with disabilities and, indeed, improving access is the mark of a humane society. The issue is in not revealing that that is the context in which her complaint is being made. BBC Scotland is using it as they do most of these cases as a way to attack Scottish governance at a national and local level, to imply that “Scots are just not very good and incapable of managing their own affairs.”
Some of the campaigners for causes which many feel are worthy oppose independence and, in my opinion, do an injustice to their humane cause by linking it to their anti-independence stance.
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Oh it matters where you are from alright and that applies not just in Scotland but right across the world including England it always has and always will.
It’s human nature to protect their own.
Unfortunately many who move to live somewhere else do not assimilate and local people are aggravated by that.
We in Scotland continually see English people criticising Scottish government whilst pretending they are just a local from Skye or inverness bla bla bla.
All this nonsense about I pay council tax so I am Scottish is absolute nonsense.
What an insulting view to hold thinking that a French person or a German person or an English person is Scottish just because they live in Scotland for a while .
I have lived in many countries around the world I know exactly how this works I know that people retain their identity their nationality decades after leaving where they are from.
As for civi or blood and soul nationalism what a load of tosh a stupid meaningless quip taken up by certain people we are not fooled by it just like we are not fooled by the small number of so called English Scot’s for yes some of whom we already know actually voted against Scottish independence .
Just because you happen to live in a particular country does not in any country in the world make you a National of that country at the very very least there are laws yes actual laws that require you to have lived there continuously for a period of years and to have agreed to do certain other assimilating things such as in England you have to be able to speak English and you have to swear allegiance to the king and answer questions about the royal family and English history .
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Well that’s me telt!
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Slight OT John, but could not help but note the web address link of this article headed https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/, which puzzled me as these have previously been headed https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-scotland or https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-scotland-scotland-politics…
Checked a few of the newer ones and they’re still using the previous type address, so it’s bit of a curiosity…
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Tell me more?
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I honestly can’t tell you any more as I’d not been paying attention to the start of the http header…
Normally if an organisation changes it’s web root it applies across the board…
What stuck out in this case was the /article’s sub-header, /articles, no longer attributed to the source, eg HMS James Cook as in /Scotland/Next_Suit_Gong_fund_validation… or even Scotland…
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I wonder if the hospital on Skye from which her husband was transferred to Raigmore was the new Community Hospital at Broadfoot? It was opened in May ’22. It is Skye’s second Community Hospital. The first one is in Portree.
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It’s not the people who migrate to Scotland that concern me. It’s our own, homegrown unionists, like D.Ross, Stephen Kerr – och the entire supposedly Scottish tories and their Labour partners. Won’t bother mentioning the other one, it’s of no consequence. They are the ones who continue to snipe away, every day on SM, they also use FMQs as party political broadcasts, droning on for so long we forget what their actual question was. They are the dangerous ones because they spread the lies.
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Prof Alf Baird describes the Scottish elite who side with their colonial masters in terms of colonial theory
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The Scottish Government and, in this case NHS Scotland, need to be vigorously challenging BBC Scotland on these continually one sided pro-union narratives. Same applies to CalMac regarding ferries. There is an excruciating lack of in these reports with no background given on the ‘source’. It is propaganda pure and simple.
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Very difficult for SNP to challenge anything the Unionist media throw at them as
they/we are not given the platform from the mass media to do so.
Online it is the same, defend anything that is deemed as supporting Scottish Independence and the “bots” and “trolls” fill your site with their bilious fakery.
Only way to win is to vote for Independence, that is, the largest party…..SNP….
after Independence vote for your first choice party, we all need to unite and win
elections with the largest majorities and wipe out the unionists and there media.
Vote for your kids, vote for yourself, vote for the future, vote for Scotland!!!
It has to be SNP……..makes sense!!!
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This is being done presently by the Scottish Government.
https://www.gov.scot/publications/joint-statement-intent-next-steps-adult-social-care-2022-23/pages/2/
One of them………the Social Covenant Steering Group
https://www.gov.scot/groups/social-covenant-steering-group/
Dr Caroline Gould is on the the members list……so does she actually attend these
meetings?
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Second tired of BBC Scotland’s anti-SNP bias!
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