By JB
Some positive things you will not be allowed to read about in the ‘Scottish’ media.
Funding for projects to benefit patients and clinical staff.
A total of £1.5 million funding in 2024-25 is supporting 12 projects to continue providing direct and personalised support to patients with cancer.
Over £1.5 million will support 12 pilot projects across Scotland to deliver a single point of contact to people diagnosed with cancer.
All of the people living within NHS Lothian, NHS Borders, NHS Dumfries and Galloway, NHS Fife, NHS Forth Valley, NHS Ayrshire and Arran, NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde, NHS Grampian, NHS Highland, NHS Tayside and NHS Western Isles will benefit from this funding.
Improving cancer care – gov.scot
As an aside I don’t remember the ‘Scottish’ media informing any of their readers or viewers about this in 2019.
£18 million funding for cancer support workers.
A new £18 million partnership will make Scotland the first country in the UK to offer cancer patients guaranteed emotional, practical and financial advice.
The Scottish Government and Macmillan Cancer Support are investing £9 million each to ensure everyone diagnosed with cancer has a dedicated support worker through the Transforming Cancer Care programme.
First Minister Nicola Sturgeon announced details of the programme on a visit to the Beatson West of Scotland Cancer Centre in Glasgow.
£18 million funding for cancer support workers – gov.scot
The second thing I wanted to share, as the British media in Scotland seem to have ignored it, is this announcement today from NHSGGC:
New Comfort Tote Bags For Teenage And Young Adult Cancer Patients At The Beatson
These tote bags, created by the Teenage and Young Adult (TYA) Team and NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde, in collaboration with the Youth Advisory Forum – which is part of the Managed Service Network for Children & Young People with Cancer – are filled with practical items to support young people newly diagnosed with cancer.
They were launched today to mark the beginning of Teenage and Young Adult Cancer Awareness Month, the tote bags are a small gesture to remind young people that they are not alone.
New comfort tote bags for teenage and young adult cancer patients at the Beatson – NHSGGC
So shamefully for them, not something that BBC, STV and The Herald are interested in because they can’t find a negative spin as reporting on it might be ‘mistaken’ as a good Scottish Government story!!!
Begs the question of what is the actual purpose of the media in Scotland apart from anti Scottish Government SNP propaganda?
JB
Talking-up Scotland 'Albatraz' 
I hope we can rid Scotland of biased media once we’re independent.
John Lawson
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MSM Monitor Tweet today:
“If Scotland came bottom in a UK wide NHS satisfaction survey do you think BBC Scotland would ignore it? Of course it wouldn’t. So why is it ignoring the latest social attitudes survey that found it came top, with Labour run Wales bottom”?
The article in Q was on the BBC Website on their ‘Health’ page only, so far that is.
“Public satisfaction with NHS hits record low”
“Nearly 3,000 people from England, Wales and Scotland were asked for their views last autumn”
“James Cullinane, 41, from Luton, is someone who has become frustrated with the state of GP care”
“Susan Quenby told the BBC about what she described as a “horrific” ordeal after being taken to hospital with what turned out to be sepsis”
“The 68-year-old from York went to A&E because of wounds that had been gradually getting worse and spent 17 hours in A&E before being taken to a ward”
“I waited in A&E with oozing weeping open sores on both shins. I had to ask a nurse in A&E for somewhere to lie down as I felt so terribly ill with chills and a fever”.
“Once in a bed, it was confirmed I had sepsis with a very high infection rate. I spent eight days in hospital on an antibiotic drip”
“While I was there my bed sheets were changed just once in a week. My legs wouldn’t stop oozing so the sheets were filthy. I was worried about picking up another infection.”
“Louise Ansari, of the patient watchdog Healthwatch England, said the survey was a “sobering reminder” of the state of the NHS”.
Then the most interesting (political) comment below, but also the most predictable one I thought , was the conclusion from the Labour UK Health Secretary, Wes Streeting, who like his Labour leader and other Labour political colleagues just, once again , blames the Tories.
However with him also conveniently forgetting (as in omitting the fact) that Labour run NHS Wales is the “lowest” in “overall satisfaction” in this public survey.
In this BBC article they state that:
“England’s Health Secretary Wes Streeting said: “We inherited a broken NHS and this survey shows patients agree.”
What about Wales NHS Mr Streeting ?
The same Tories (as the former UK government) that Wes Streeting, his Labour leader and other Labour political colleagues said, and still say , had no impact on the Scottish NHS, and that the SNP , and only the SNP, have (supposedly) destroyed the NHS in Scotland.
However Wes Streeting did tell the BBC’s Laura Kuenssberg, in an interview prior to the 2024 GE, that the reason Wales performance was suffering with their NHS was because of the poor and bad decisions made by the Tory UK government that then has negative consequences for devolved governments such as Wales (but not Scotland who also BTW are a devolved government).
Strange that the BBC in their article did not find anyone , as a member of the public, in Labour run Wales , to give quotes on their (bad) experiences of the NHS in Wales, the same Wales who were the “lowest” in “overall satisfaction” in this ‘British’ survey.
Especially as they, the BBC, did add in their article , minus them quoting any actual figure as in percentage, that “The public in Wales were the most dissatisfied with the NHS”
STV online also have an article on this survey where they too offer no breakdown for each nation.
I wonder why , also what does the ‘S’ in STV stand for ?
Another word for British perhaps ?
Their STV online article is under the heading:
“Major poll reveals ‘startling collapse’ in public satisfaction with NHS”
They did state this in their article:
“an accompanying report suggests the public now agree with Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer and Health Secretary Wes Streeting that the NHS is “broken”.
Would that be the public in Wales then ?
Well apparently no , as the STV online article chose to omit the fact that this survey showed that “”A higher proportion of people in Wales (72%) were dissatisfied with the NHS compared to the survey average”.
They , STV, just also seemed to present most of the stats from a ‘British’ perspective and no breakdown per nation , not even for the one nation that they, STV, broadcast the news in, as in Scotland.
(That is then a big clue that Scotland is not the “lowest in overall satisfaction” for our NHS within their Britain).
File both STV and BBC Scotland’s online articles under Omission and where facts relating to Scotland’s NHS public satisfaction being obviously perceived as being better than Wales NHS , is then ‘Not in the news where we are”.
(Or indeed on any BBC Wales page either, surely this as a story should warrant an article on one of their BBC Welsh pages online, as on the BBC Scotland Politics page they still have an article from the 30 March about one aspect of the Scottish NHS that has a headline “Patient safety at risk from GP burnout, warns doctor”).
So this public survey on the NHS from the British Social Attitudes (BSA) survey, which covers England, Scotland and Wales.
The survey was carried out between September 16 and October 27 2024.
The findings in the survey
“A higher proportion of people in Wales (72%) were dissatisfied with
the NHS compared to the survey average and compared to people in
England (59%)”.
Satisfaction with Social Care:
“Respondents in Wales (69%) were again significantly more likely to be
dissatisfied than the survey average”.
Apparently it’s findings concluded that the real problems found within the all NHS in all Nations included the significant factor that…..
“All NHS services are under huge pressure”.
(Though not according to Labour, Tories & the Lib Dems in respect to Scotland’s NHS as they all seem to think that nothing should impact our NHS , and that no pressures exists in our NHS for our Scottish government, no UK government decisions on the NHS then impacts Scotland’s NHS and so any problems that exist are solely down to the SNP Scottish government’s mismanagement).
Obviously with the opposite being the case for the respective NHS Services in Wales & England as in where other political parties are in charge of the NHS services in these nations.
Seems to be that the public’s perception does not align with Labour’s (or indeed the media in Scotland ) false promoted perception of Scotland being the worse NHS in the UK, not shocked or surprised at that at all.
Also how much is the Scottish public’s perception of the Scottish NHS being influenced by all of the opposition parties negativity , the BMA representative Dr Iain Kennedy and also the media in Scotland (and media elsewhere) constantly attacking our NHS as being “destroyed” , is promoting our NHS as not being managed well by the SNP and overall as a combined hostile opposition they are all just constantly declaring that the Scottish NHS is not just BAD , but apparently it’s worse than just BAD, as in it is #SNPBAD.
Vote SNP in 2026 and then eventually our NHS services will have a chance to be greatly improved once we become independent and free from the various UK government’s poor decisions that impact our NHS .
We will also be free from a hostile media’s propaganda campaign against our NHS and also free from politically compromised Reps of a Medical Union and as various UK governments and others lay all of the blame upon the SNP, while ignoring all other governments within the UK, in them not noting how bad they , as other governments, are performing with their respective NHS services that are, in some cases , far worse than in Scotland.
Liz S
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