Liz S

BBC has this story on their website in relation to the NHS in England….It is on the main UK page , when you click on the story it then takes you onto the Health page, it is not on the UK Politics page:

“Police investigate heart deaths at NHS hospital”

“Police have launched an investigation into the deaths of patients following heart operations at an NHS hospital, the BBC has learned”.

“Documents seen by us (BBC) suggest patients suffered avoidable harm – and that in some cases their death certificates failed to disclose that the procedure contributed to their deaths”.

“One woman’s operation at Castle Hill Hospital near Hull – that should have taken no more than two hours – has been described as a “disaster” by one medic. She spent six hours in surgery and lost five litres of blood – all while under local anesthetic”.

“But none of this was mentioned on her death certificate, which recorded her as dying from pneumonia. Her family were also not told what had happened”.

“The NHS body that runs Castle Hill, the Humber Health Care Partnership, told the BBC it had delivered improvements suggested by the Royal College of Physicians (RCP). In a statement, it said it was happy to directly answer any questions from the patients’ families”.

“Humberside Police said an investigation was “in the very early stages” and no arrests had been made”.

“The department’s TAVI mortality rate at the time was three times higher than the UK average, something patients and families were also unaware of”.

“Staff concerns within the hospital led managers to commission several reviews – but none was made public“.

“In 2021, seven cardiac consultants wrote they were “very concerned about the safety and transparency of the TAVI service” in a letter to the hospital’s chief executive. It followed the deaths, in less than six months, of four of the 11 patients”.

“The Humber Health Care Partnership – which runs Castle Hill through Hull University Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust (HUTH) – said in a statement: “We understand families may have questions and we are happy to answer those directly.”

(There was a Review in 2024 , this article by the BBC lists some of that Review’s findings, check it out on the BBC website as it is quite damning in relation to this hospital’s behaviour in this matter).

So just imagine for one moment if this were in a Scottish hospital.

Would the fact that the Police were investigating “heart deaths” at a Scottish Hospital not then become a political matter. Where Anas Sarwar and other ‘leaders’ of parties at Holyrood would be highlighting this at FMQ’s as a political matter.

Where we would then see the BBC include these attacks by other ‘leaders’ at Holyrood upon the FM and also upon the Scottish Health Secretary in all of their BBC Scotland news reports that day.

This article in the BBC website is in relation to an English hospital as part of the English NHS , but it is not political , it is as an article, one that is confined to noting only the facts of the story , the name of the Hospital and also who runs it, where also it notes the relatives of patients and tells their stories on this, as the relatives of those who had died via this tragic situation that now has prompted a Police investigation.

This article was only added to the BBC website today but it is now currently the fifth story on the main UK page, we all know had it been a Scottish hospital then it would have been the top story on both the main Scottish page and also very much the top story on the Scottish Politics page of the BBC website. (also how long would it, as a story, have remained on the BBC website on their Scottish pages).

That’s another reason I vote SNP (one of many) as I know that Scotland and the SNP are not treated in the same way as some other nations and political parties are within the UK, like say the nation (England) that the UK government ( previously under the Tories and now Labour) are in charge of , but who, as a UK government, are often allowed to be seen to escape responsibility and accountability for failures and scandals within some English public services, while our Scottish government is blamed for everything (more so many of those things that are outwith their control as a government).

If things like this happened within a specific hospital why then, in Scotland, does it always become political and so then seen to be the fault of our Scottish government yet in England that is not the case. Both cannot be right.

Vote SNP via a majority or keep listening to Jackie Baillie pretending that it is the Scottish NHS that has (supposed huge) problems , while we are supposed to then assume all other NHS services within other nations in the UK are problem free. Reality and facts prove otherwise (However Baillie does not do facts and neither does her pretend boss at Holyrood, who takes his instructions from the real boss of his party at Labour HQ).

Liz S