The Guardian and the Daily Record today have
Rise in hospital ‘corridor care’ is national emergency, union warns
Scots nurses set to declare ‘national emergency’ due to hospital corridor deaths
Tellingly, the Daily Record uses an ITV rather than STV image.
Both the Anglocentric Guardian piece and the patched up Record piece are based on:
Corridor care: unsafe, undignified, unacceptable
published today by the RCN. In it we see:
Statement: clinical care took place in an inappropriate environment e.g. an additional bed in a bay, waiting room, a corridor or a location not designed for patients.
to which 38% of the Scottish subsample agree.
Three things.
First, the question is extremely vague. If corridor care is the main issue, why did they not ask ‘Statement: clinical care took place in a corridor.’
Second, how big was the Scottish sample? The UK sample was 11 000 so you might think 1 000 pro rata? There are 65 000 nurses just in Scotland. So, in a self-selecting, ‘squeaky wheel’, unscientific sample, only 1.5% could be bothered?
Third, where are the images, the video clips by angry relatives, if corridor care is so common?
Talking-up Scotland 
However it was a problem when English Labour were in power at Holyrood. There must be historical news reports about that via the daily rags, back when Scotland was rubbish at everything even under Labour, but being under English rule/control was never quoted as being the problem in the first place.
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According to Kay Burley on Sky news this morning the NHS is in crisis with ambulances queued outside hospitals unable to cope with people dying in corridors. Nurses declared there is a national emergency. They are even using car parks. Where, suddenly, are all these critically ill people coming from? What’s the cause of this crisis? Has another pandemic crept up on us that nobody is telling us about? And,of course, nobody actually uses the words England/English, preferring ‘all over the country’ or ‘the UK’.
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Unionist propaganda – Scotland can’t be seen to be better than our ”Better Together” partners .
And /Or , lazy journalism !
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MSM Monitor tweeted this in relation to today’s BBC Kaye Adams Radio programme on this very topic……….Patients in Corridors.
MSM Tweet:
“The Radio Scotland phone-in this morning is about patients being treated on hospital wards. The issue is presented as Scotland only. It isn’t. The survey was a UK wide survey as the UK BBC item makes clear. More selective reporting by BBC Scotland”
The video he attached showed Kaye Adams state “RCN Scotland said the treatment of patients in inappropriate Hospital settings is becoming normal and getting worse. In your experience how common is corridor care”…then she gave the number to call for anyone wanting to call on this topic for her show.
He, MSM Monitor, also attached a video on the BBC UK report on this which made it clear this is not what Kaye Adams and her BBC Scotland radio shows was trying to misrepresent as something only impacting Scotland and only feedback via RCN Scotland………as they, BBC UK news team, quoted the Royal College of Nursing who stated this ,as a situation , was a “National emergency” but in the context of what Nation though………as one in three Nurses replied to an online survey said that on their last shift they had to provide care in a waiting area, a side room or a corridor….NHS providers have asked the next UK government to properly address the causes of Hospital overcrowding…..so the UK government are responsible for English NHS….and there are also reports that Welsh NHS (under Labour devolved Govt) are no better than other nations in this aspect/topic ……….”In same recent RCN’s recent survey of nursing and midwifery staff on corridor care, 45% of respondents in Wales agreed with the statement that clinical care took place in an inappropriate environment (e.g. an additional bed in a bay, waiting room, a corridor or a location not designed for patients)
Kaye Adams touting yet again for #SNPBAD NHS stories where people can phone in her programme that, once more, is again connecting a topic as a problem only associated with the Scottish NHS….as in how she presented the topic up for discussion on her programme…..in what may be perceived by some of their (few) listeners as a problem only unique to Scotland ….with their ‘stories’ as members of the public…. or their personal ‘observations’ ………..but who will be able to substantiate the validity in their claims (stories)….and who can guarantee that they as individuals are not , like the BBC, those who see the SNP as #BAD……as we often see via the BBC’s Vox pops they, the BBC, choose to broadcast……
This really has to be called out….as this pattern of BBC Scotland (bad) behaviour via their TV news, Debate shows & Radio programmes is now relentless , ruthless and most blatant in it’s biased, partisan and propaganda style of reporting news, hosting debate shows and presenting Radio programmes…..where styles of questioning is not equal for all parties…..and constant interruptions by presenters/hosts does little to inspire the audience to think anything but that these interruptions have a purpose….to stop the flow of the answer, put the interviewee off and ignorance and opposition of the interviewer for the person he/she is interviewing…..and they are ducking doing it deliberately too…….
“BBC BBC you can stick your license fee”….(words from a song by Scots singer and songwriter Bobby Nicholson)
NMRN
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och, British and English are interchangeable according to Richi Rich Sunak.
https://www.thenational.scot/news/23205472.british-actually-shorthand-english-rishi-sunak-says/
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The RCN is not a small, not a new, inexperienced organisation. Far from it! It has a long track record of advocacy on behalf of the nursing profession. Its continuing use of the name – the Royal College of Nursing – seems like an attempt to raise its status with the public as something other than ‘just’ a trade union.
The document that is the subject of the main blog post is loftily described by the RCN as a ‘Policy Report’. It has been relatively well resourced: it has two authors plus no less than 15 other named contributors. And it has received substantial media coverage today. So it is entirely right and proper that someone should assess the ‘evidence’ it presents on NHS Scotland, including through a critical appraisal of the research methods involved. As so often in such cases, it is TuS that steps up to provide that public service. What’s happened to paid, well resourced journalism in public service and other mainstream media organisations?
The main TuS blog post asks: ‘.. how big was the Scottish sample?’ and answers ‘The UK sample was 11 000 so you might think 1 000 pro rata? There are 65 000 nurses just in Scotland. So, in a self-selecting, ‘squeaky wheel’, unscientific sample, only 1.5% could be bothered?’ The other ‘answer’ is that the authors of the RCN report opt not to share this most basic of statistics with readers and (of course) no mainstream media journalist in Scotland is likely to be bothered to ask before amplifying the report’s content.
Candidly that estimate of 1,000 responses to the question of ‘corridor care’ may be overly generous! The RCN document indicates that its online survey had 11,000 respondents but a substantial portion of these work in settings that CANNOT experience ‘corridor care’ so how would they know what’s happening e.g. RCN members working in call centres. Stripping these out, the report explains that 37% of respondents – we’re told this is ‘equivalent to 2,935 people’ across the UK – agreed that care took place in corridors. So 2,935 must come from a valid sample of just 7,932 people UK-wide.
Adopting the same pro-rata assumption, 9% of a sample of 7,932 would suggest 714 respondents from Scotland. And 714 respondents out of a population of 65,000 nurses in Scotland equates to just 1.1%.
(And if the sample from Scotland is significantly greater than this estimate, then the the samples being used to draw conclusions for the other parts of the UK simply become more problematic. Why did the RCN not simply follow good research practice and give the sample sizes? Concerned that too much transparency might undermine its conclusions?)
If the sample size estimate for Scotland is reasonably accurate and given that the RCN reports that just 38% of respondents from Scotland agreed that care was indeed taking place in ‘corridors’, that could equate to just 271 RCN members out of 65,000 nurses in Scotland, or 0.4% – and a self-selecting i.e non-randomised 0.4% at that!
Is this evidence-based advocacy from the RCN? Is this a contribution to evidence-based policy making? The RCN’s attempt to present this as evidence in something it calls a ‘Policy Report’ should be an embarrassment to any professional concerned with social research to inform policy making!
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