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By Professor John Robertson OBA, former Faculty Research Ethics Chair, UWS
Thanks to iusedtobeenglish for alerting me to this.
From BBC Wales yesterday:
A woman who was diagnosed with anorexia at 19 had to travel as far away as Glasgow to receive intensive treatment. Molly Leonard from Rhoose, Vale of Glamorgan, is now 26 and in recovery but believes she would not “have struggled for so long” if adequate treatment was available in her community.
“You’re just stripped away from everything. It’s so hard when you’re so far away from anything normal, to suddenly being in a strange place where you don’t have any of your belongings, and sometimes you just need your mum,” Molly said.
Last month, we saw this:
84 patients!
BBC Scotland last reported on this in 2021, with:
People living with an eating disorder and their families should be offered greater support, according to a aScottish government review of services., external The clinicians and psychologists who led the review said that seven of Scotland’s health boards had been an 86% increase in referrals for eating disorders over the last year. Figures also showed a 220% jump in paediatric admissions at two regional adolescent in-patient units.
Christine Reid’s daughter Madeline Wallace died from anorexia in January 2018. The 18-year-old from Peterborough had been studying medicine at Edinburgh University when she became gravely unwell. An inquest into her death found that she “rapidly lost weight” during her first weeks as a student.
In December 2017 – at the end of her first term at university – Maddy returned home where she was diagnosed with a muscular-skeletal issue. She became seriously unwell with chest pains and was rushed to Peterborough Hospital. She died just days later due to complications from sepsis. Her GP notes (from Peterborough) didn’t arrive at her GP (in Edinburgh) until she had left Edinburgh.
So, someone dies in Peterborough after her Peterborough GP fails to inform NHS Scotland in time and NHS Scotland needs to improve?
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Raigmore hospital yesterday started surgery for Carpal Tunnel at 8am myself at 12.30 and I did hear they did something in the region of 20 so congratulations to all staff involved that is something Jackie Baillie would not report on.
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Meant to add Sarwar says he will send patients anywhere for treatment if my memory serves me when that did happen under the SNP was Baillie one of doing all the shouting how wrong it was.
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Since the SNP took power they have delivered and maintained a significant reduction in hospital-acquired infections (HAIs).
In 2005-2006, a national survey reported an HAI prevalence of 9.5% in Scotland’s acute hospitals. By 2011-2012, this had decreased to 4.9%, a nearly 50% reduction.
In 2021, approximately 1% of hospital patients in Scotland develop an HAI, showing continued progress in infection control.
The SNP also reduced the number of hugely damaging Clostridium difficile infections. The rate of infections dropped from a rate of 1.5 cases per 1,000 acute occupied bed days under Labour to 0.32 cases.
In summary, the SNP had to tackle a crisis in hospital-acquired infections inherited from Scottish Labour. People need to remember this record, which cost many lives, when they listen to Anas Sarwar making promises about the NHS.
Scotsman 24th Jul 2021
Results from the Scottish National HAI Prevalence Survey
Healthcare Associated Infection (HCAI) strategy 2023 to 2025
NHSScotland Chief Executive’s Annual Report 2011/12
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Since the SNP took power they have delivered and maintained a significant reducti
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To be fair BBC Scotland probably thought that Peterborough was in Scotland.
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