Professor John Robertson OBA
BBC Leicestershire today has the above and:
The family of a mother who died from cervical cancer after twice being wrongly told she had negative results have been awarded undisclosed damages. The misreporting of Louise Gleadell’s cervical screening results was admitted by University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust following her death aged 38 in March 2018.
An internal review in 2017 found the samples, taken four years apart, were not good enough to produce reliable results but neither Ms Gleadell – a mum to three boys – nor her relatives were told about the “inadequate” samples while she was still alive.
Her family have now been given an undisclosed payout, with the trust apologising for its mistakes that had “devastating consequences”.
Has the buck stopped there? Has the health secretary or the government been asked for comment? No. Why would they?
In June 2021, BBC Scotland had the above and:
A woman has died from cervical cancer after being wrongly excluded from Scotland’s screening programme. Public Health Minister Maree Todd said about 430 women who had partial hysterectomies were wrongly told they didn’t need to be screened.
Was the Minister running the health board, the hospital, the oncology unit on a day-to-day basis? Was the SNP responsible in some way?
You’d think so judging by this in the report:
Scottish Labour health spokeswoman Jackie Baillie said it was an “extremely serious situation” and asked why the issue was “not picked up by audits of the screening process in the past”.
She added: “The truth is we do not yet know the full scale of this error.”
Ms Baillie said there was an “significant backlog” in screening of about 180,000 tests because of the pandemic, and delays of six months or even more for those who have been screened and need treatment.”
Scottish Conservative health spokeswoman Annie Wells said it was hard to comprehend how the loved ones of the woman who died, and all of the other women who had been affected, must be feeling as a result of the error.
She added: “The SNP government must ensure that every effort is made to urgently contact any more women who have been excluded from screening programmes as quickly as possible.
“Women will understandably be concerned by this news and should be offered support at every turn.”
Is this a one-off politicising of health services in Scotland?
You know the answer. It’s long-running proxy war against the SNP. See:
As the Guardian breaks ranks with the other media, prompted by my correction, to reveal that NHS England A&E is a staggering 20% less effective than NHS Scotland with only 74.5% as opposed to 89.2% seen in 4 hours, BBC Scotland ignore the facts and go for two single cases of alleged failure.
The child infection death story is an unsubstantiated case from 2017 fed to BBC Scotland by a Labour politician. Hospital-acquired infection deaths are, of course, much lower than they were under Labour administrations but longer-term trends, of clear public interest, are not mentioned. The editorial decision to use the picture of the Health Secretary, to call her ‘Freeman’ and to suggest personal failure in the wording recalls the image of the First Minister and the Health Secretary on 12th September clearly setting them up as the heads which must roll based on the comments of a Conservative politician. The story of ineffective treatments is about NHS England.
The politicising of NHS Scotland is made abundantly clear just by comparison with the work of BBC England and BBC Wales where the background presence of Tory and Labour administrations means that politicians’ heads never have to roll there, and ‘guilty’ faces need not be associated with headlines.
Though I tend to question the need for conspiracies generally, you have to wonder if the rejection of real news of NHS Scotland’s success and the regular headlining of scare stories of dying children, pigeon-infected hospitals and women in pain does not suggest one, in the offices of BBC Scotland News.
Talking-up Scotland 'Albatraz' 
I WILL SAY THIS ONCE AGAIN WESTMINSTER are lying their faces off
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NHS deaths/medical mistakes / infections / long waiting lists in England are the fault of the hospitals according to the BBC.
NHS deaths/medical mistakes/infections /long waiting lists in Scotland are the sole fault of the SNP Government according to BBC Scotland/ The Herald / Jaikie Baillie / Brylcreem Gulhane / Kid Starver / and any ”Scottish ” Labour MP who can read the quotes given to them by McSweeney .
Simples !
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Aye James that’s the truth
Liz S
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She added: “The truth is we do not yet know the full scale of this error.” and frankly don’t give a shit who Millie Main was.
Same innuendo, same protagonist and same facilitator 4 years later, we must be missing something obvious….
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The subject doesn’t really matter, whether it be our N.H.S, ferries, or indeed any other matter, as long as the headlines are detrimental to Scotland, and in particular, an S.N.P run Government. Does anyone really think that this brainwashing, because that is what it is, would be taking place if a unionist administration was in place at Holyrood? Of course it wouldn’t. But the traitors in our midst, the media and politicians, are quite content to denigrate “their” country, even when the facts tell a different story. When oh when will enough Scots waken up and realise this is how we have been played by English Government’s for centuries? I really do despair at times.
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“The subject doesn’t really matter”
Indeed it does not Alex
Liz S
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