Still a big item for BBC Scotland after 4 days:
NHS Grampian has suspended visiting to Dr Gray’s Hospital in Elgin after an outbreak of diarrhoea and vomiting. The health board said three wards had been closed to new admissions and only essential visitors would be allowed at the Moray hospital.
The report does not refer to Norovirus but those are the big symptoms and it tends to strike in winter in hospitals.
What’s the wider picture BBC Scotland? Should we be concerned?
You can’t tell us? Editor says no?
Oh well, from Public Health Scotland on 24 November:
See that purple line? That’s the actual level of Norovirus infections reported in week-ending 24 November 2024, way below the spike in 2023 (green), close to the low level in 2022 (blue) and below the 5 year average (dashes).
BBC Scotland, do you think the folk that pay your wages might like to know that?
Send that link to Lisa.
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Talking-up Scotland 'Albatraz' 
The minds of those people at bbc scotland must be screwed up their antics are laughable what a bunch of weirdos , i bet their friends and family are the same a little cabal of weirdos constantly telling their neighbours and the rest of us lies what a life , it will be affecting their mind and their blood pressure no eonder so many of them get sick snd disappear into obscurity
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Thank you Professor Robertson for risking your health on behalf of the rest of us. Seeing anything BBC Scotland news related effects me in a similar way to what some people of Elgin suffered. If it is a very low number of people had they watched BBC Scotland news ?
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For Prof Robertson: Apologies for being off-topic, but this piece of unsolicited mince was in my newsfeed today. https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/12/02/scottish-education-keir-starmer-bridget-phillipson-labour/
Have you seen it? I was able to read a bit of it before it vanished, presumably behind the paywall, and it was highly scathing: apparently it’s all due to the SNP Scottish Gov’t. Indeed, it sounds right up your street for demolition!
Coinneach
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Just wait ….FM’s questions when Tory/Labour will no doubt be calling for a public enquiry into how this could possibly have happened and calling for the Health Minister’s head and why the board are not in ‘Special measures’ to control the outbreak that will most likely engulf the SNHS resulting in yet more deaths over the winter months. Just another scandal that they can place at the SNP’s door.
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O/T The reporting of Emergency Department (ED) waiting times performance across the NHS has long been a topic covered by TuS. As recently as December 1, there was this blog post: ‘NHS Scotland is not lagging behind – Complaint to Editor of Times’.
On the matter of the published comparison of ED waits in NHS England and NHS Scotland, that TuS post rightly made the following comment on The Times’ article – once upon a time widely regarded as a ‘newspaper of record’ – ‘This is confused or dishonest’.
It is therefore hugely disappointing to read this in The National today under the headline ‘John Swinney says improving NHS is at the ‘heart’ of SNP Budget’:
Referring to a recent Institute for Fiscal Studies report, The National has this: ‘The study found that the elective waiting list in Scotland had continued to grow in the last year and there was a larger share of patients waiting more than four hours at A&E than in England.’ (my emphasis)
This from The National is NOT in the form of a quote from the IFS or another source: this was written by a journalist at The National, and written in a way that implies acceptance of veracity. Moreover, here The National does NOT make a comparison of rates of change in performance over time: it is writing about performance at a particular time: ‘there was a larger share of patients waiting more than four hours at A&E’. Once might pose the question: ‘Is this confused or dishonest?’
I assume it’s the former! Or careless/sloppy or oddly, blissfully unaware of the significance of the topic being written about!
One would have hoped that journalists at The National would have a decent level of awareness of pro-independence sources such as TuS. One would have hoped they might be aware of long term efforts here to inform on the significance of ED waiting times statistics in Scotland and England and how they often get misreported – to the detriment of the standing of NHS Scotland and the Scottish Government’s reputation.
For the comparable Emergency Departments in England and Scotland – endorsed as ‘comparable’ by no less than the Royal College of Emergency Medicine (RCEM) and by the Office of National Statistics – NHS Scotland has long performed (not well enough but) better than NHS England in meeting the four hour standard.
And on 12 hour waits performance – crucial because of the alleged serious harms to patients caused by such long stays (see RCEM’s statements on this) – again NHS Scotland has long performed (not well enough but) substantially better that its peers elsewhere in the UK, including NHS England.
The National needs to sharpen its political antennae and its critical thinking!
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