Christmas Factcheck – Jackie Baillie’s local hospital cancels fewer operations than most yet she betrays the staff for cheap ill-informed point-scoring

By Professor John Robertson OBA

I know, get a life, but I’ve had a drink and rest of the family are watching Gavin an Stacey.

I can’t concentrate, still furious and nauseated by the Jackie Baillie / Herald, Christmas Eve attack on the Royal Jubilee Hospital in Clydebank. Using their own data, ‘modelled’ in some way, they suggest that this hospital is doing less operations and that SNP failures lie behind that.

So, at 01.10am, I access the actual, raw not ‘modelled’, data and, lo and behold, the Golden Jubilee, month after month for the last six (ringed in purple below) has cancelled a smaller percentage of its operations than any other board in Scotland.

As for the actual number of ops performed by the GJH:

  • October 2024 – 2 304
  • September – 1 829
  • August – 2 479
  • July – 2 464
  • June – 2 521
  • May – 2 627
  • April – 2 404
  • March – 2 303
  • February – 2 375
  • January – 2 288
  • December 2 023 – 2 101

Almost the same in October as it had been in March, higher than in December 2 023, and with understandable variation from month to month. No fall as suggested by the Herald.

Remember, some ops are cancelled because the patient decides they don’t want to go ahead (1-3%), some are cancelled by the medic because they change their view of what is best for the patient (1-3%) and some are cancelled because an unpredicted event – major road traffic incident, staff infection outbreak – demands priority access to surgeons and theatres (1-3%).

Jackie Baillie’s local hospital deserves her praise but gets nothing in return from this awful woman.

Source – https://acrobat.adobe.com/id/urn:aaid:sc:EU:a884278c-f606-465e-94f8-59ddf9e91fa7

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8 thoughts on “Christmas Factcheck – Jackie Baillie’s local hospital cancels fewer operations than most yet she betrays the staff for cheap ill-informed point-scoring”

    1. Than you staying up late to check on Jackie Baillie’s ill informed comments, once again proving that you must never ever take anything at face value from the two faced opposition parties in Scotland.

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  2. I am sure Baillie fought to close down part of her local hospital then tried to say she did not. I agree with Mr Lamont about it is Baillie career that is on life support.

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    1. She never did the Vale of Leven any favours when she was in a position to do so. Bit by bit it was downgraded so that now it is a shadow of its former self although the staff keep up a great standard of care.

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  3. “the SNP seem to have given up on fixing” what ?

    “the crisis”.

    Oh yes that sounds like a credible position and feasible explanation from Labour opposition MSP Ms Baillie. (Not).

    A political party, as a government, seeing a supposed “crisis” then also supposdley just “giving up” on “fixing it”.

    If one had a brain one would see right through this fake news.

    Ms Baillie is obviously giving what is an opposition party member’s interpretation of a supposed situation that she says exists on a supposed problem that she also says exists that is connected, she says, to a party that her party are in opposition to in Scotland.

    Many people are then left wondering and also a tad confused that with Ms Baillie promoting herself as someone with supposed expertise in this area and also as someone who promotes that she supposdley has all of the answers , as in solutions, on all and any problems with the NHS.

    Then why is she not helping her struggling Labour colleagues in Wales with their poorly performing NHS or is it a case of “Labour in Wales have given up on fixing the (actual) crisis” in their respective NHS ?

    (Or is it that the reality is that Ms Baillie has no solutions on the NHS and that she is merely yet again ‘Playing politics’ to try and disadvantage the SNP while trying to also do the opposite for her party, as in give Labour a (undeserved) advantage over the SNP, while also she is confident in the knowledge that some of the media in Scotland will back her up in also promoting this fake news on the NHS).

    If Ms Baillie is looking for a real “crisis” I would suggest she looks to her own party as currently indications are that they are on ‘life support’ politically within the UK and also very much within Scotland.

    So Ms Baillie can deflect all she wants but as her party are on “life support” politically it seems very much that Labour UK, especially Keir Starmer, have “given up on fixing this crisis” that now currently exists for Labour within the UK.

    Starmer wrongly assumes that his large majority at WM is enough justification for his government to make all of the wrong decisions which are impacting all of the wrong people who also, as people, wrongly assumed that Labour were the ones who would “fix the crisis” within the UK when they, as people, wrongly voted for Labour in the last GE.

    How quickly things have now descended into a political crisis for Labour throughout the UK. (which I am sure that Ms Baillie will not be able to “fix” in time for the 2026 Scottish elections).

    You wrote “Jackie Baillie’s local hospital deserves her praise but gets nothing in return from this awful woman” well neither does Scotland get anything from her or her party so really this for her , and the party she represents, is just par for the course is it not.

    Let’s see if Labour’s majority remains, if there are subsequent By-elections held in the future , and so whether Labour will retain their large majority in still managing to hold onto certain seats that they won in the 2024 GE.

    I doubt it.

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