This is a safer than average hospital being used by Anas Sarwar to gaslight you

oversight of this hospital for a long period of time.

Professor John Robertson OBA

Above, Anas Sarwar trying to fabricate a wider hospital safety crisis out of a small number of incidents in the Queen Elizabeth University Hospital, with a view to attacking the SNP Government’s oversight.

From Hospital Standardised Mortality Ratios October 2023 to September 2024, published on 11 February 2025, QEUH had a lower than average Standardised Mortality Ratio, at 0.93, than the Scottish average of 1.0. 15 hospitals had a worse ratio of more than 1.0.1

If an HSMR value for a hospital is less than one, this means the number of deaths within 30 days of admission for this hospital is fewer than predicted. If an HSMR value for a hospital is greater than one, this means the number of deaths within 30 days for this hospital is more than predicted.

In a Scottish context, QEUH is a safer than average hospital. The tragic mistake which Sarwar is so keen to milk is not, on the evidence, a sign of of more general problems.

There are hospitals in the UK, none in Scotland, which Labour might wish to be concerned about and appear on TV to empathise creepily with parents. They might try the East Lancashire Trust where the SMR is 1.32 and 700 more patients died than were expected. They could try another 12 or so, in England, with ratios of around 1.2.2

If he’s trying to build a campaign on such dark narratives, he’s in the wrong country, see:

Sources:

  1. https://www.publichealthscotland.scot/publications/hospital-standardised-mortality-ratios/hospital-standardised-mortality-ratios-october-2023-to-september-2024/
  2. https://app.powerbi.com/view?r=eyJrIjoiMDM5YzJkNjItZDUyNS00ZDRlLWJmOTItMjE2ZTA0M2VjYzI1IiwidCI6IjM3YzM1NGIyLTg1YjAtNDdmNS1iMjIyLTA3YjQ4ZDc3NGVlMyJ9

7 thoughts on “This is a safer than average hospital being used by Anas Sarwar to gaslight you”

  1. Neither Sarwar nor Starmer will EVER use a Welsh NHS comparison … nor an English comparison …

    One has to wonder WHY ?

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    Sarwas the squirrel appears whenever his direct bosses the UK labour Westminster government demands. Sarwas jumps.

    meamwhile…. An government uncontrolled by Scotland.

    A household has to balance it’s books. UK’s Westminster government actually owns it’s own bank – bank of ENGLAND. So the boss, UK Labour MP Reeves, says Westminster government needs more money (for whatever) and the money is put into the government accounts to SPEND on the priorities of the UK Westminster government. The money is created like it always is for governments to achieve their aims. (Households dinae get this option) Governments usually tax excess money out of the system by THOSE WHO BENEFITED or hold government debt which all governments hold. (Households dinae get this option) It’s a choice for UK Westminster government to confuse the public. Think of the financial crash – where did the Westminster government magic all the £100, hundreds of billions to bailout the banks. and. banks and theirs benefitted by the billions. Remember the UK Westminster government should tax them that benefitted to “balance the books” like. so who did the tax? You, me, family, pals, colleagues, sick, poor. All taxed and cut to ribbons. Where’s all this money now? If it went back to the UK Westminster government, where the h.xl is it? Just austerity for the wee folk. COVID – ditto except the “bail out cash” went probably to their pals in the “VIP lane” Who benefits not you, or me or family, pals, colleagues, the poor, like us. Just UK Westminster government and their special pals. Just austerity for the wee folk. Working it out? UK Westminster government decides its priorities. It insists it’s “BANK” create the money needed to deliver these. “BANK” creates the money UK Westminster government spends this on it’s priorities. UK Westminster government can tax this money back through taxing people, businesses, etc. UK Westminster government chooses their priorities – banks, VIP lane “so called pals” UK Westminster government chooses those to tax – the poor, the old, the children, the weak, public infrastructure, NHS infrastructure, councils, etc, And who to benefit – billionaires, bankers, non-doms, public equity, mega-corporations, etc UK Westminster government it UK Labour Westminster government chooses, the wee folk are shafted. Grrr

    Dottieb

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  3. In January 2017 PLOS Medicine published research on….Patient Safety Incidents Involving Sick Children in Primary Care in England and Wales: A Mixed Methods Analysis

    Patient Safety Incidents Involving Sick Children in Primary Care in England and Wales: A Mixed Methods Analysis | PLOS Medicine

    PLOS Medicine as a journal was published online and in a printed format until 2005 and is now only published online by the Public Library of Science under the  Creative Commons “attribution” license  in other words “open access content”.

    “Articles published in PLoS Medicine are rigorously peer-reviewed. Academic and professional editors, supported by expert peer-reviewers, select those studies that drive research forward—in this case, toward medical applications and benefits for patients.”

    Getting back to the main headline, this research although not about hospital care is very much about NHS primary care, GP’s, Clinics, Community Pharmacies, Dental and Optometry Services in England and Wales.

     Although all of the report is relevantly illuminating one section did stand out….

    “Treatment of Sick Children with Medication

    The 674 medication-related incidents (primary and contributory; harmful and nonharmful) were described in the home (e.g., from NHS 111 service calls), general practice, and community pharmacy settings. Most incidents (n = 386; 57%) were related to dispensing errors in community pharmacies; other medication incidents were administration errors (n = 123; 18%) typically in the home setting, prescribing errors (n = 68; 10%) in the general practice setting, and clinical treatment decision-making incidents (n = 66; 10%) in the general practice or out-of-hours setting (Table 1).

    Children less than 1 y old were most frequently (n = 131; 19%) involved in reported medication-related incidents, and these children were largely being treated for epilepsy, asthma, and infections (Table 4). As highlighted in Table 4, inhalers for asthma treatment were frequently involved in medication-related incidents: for example, children were dispensed the wrong dose inhaler (n = 27), the wrong brand (n = 18), or the wrong inhaler medication (n = 16). Children with epilepsy were frequently dispensed the wrong dose of anticonvulsant (n = 27) or dispensed anticonvulsants with the wrong instruction labels (n = 11). Errors involving antimicrobial treatment were related to dispensing the wrong dose (n = 13), the wrong medication (n = 22), or medications with incorrect labels (n = 13).”

    This is not meant as a defence of someone in NHS Scotland making an absolutely horrific mistake. They are meant to have another person double check for correct medicine and dosage at the patients bedside, I think they call it the 5 R’s….Right Patient, Right Drug, Right Route, Right Time and more importantly, Right Dose.

    My point is that the Scottish “media” spotlight, illuminate every single thing, especially about our NHS, for political gain all to preserve their union. The Scottish Government or more’s the point the SNP always get the blame. Was an SNP MSP or MP in the theatre during this operation? I would say 100% no.

    This is obviously a regular occurrence in England and Wales, according to the research but no politician or government are ever blamed.

    In using this awful event, especially where a baby is concerned, as political propaganda the BBC in Scotland and British Labour in Scotland have sunk to a new depth depravity!!!

    JB

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