Professor John Robertson OBA

Headlining on BBC Breakfast this morning, the above, and on their website:

NHS Blood and Transplant (NHSBT), the body that oversees England’s blood donation system, said the number of regular donors needs to rise from around 800,000 to more than one million to maintain a safe and reliable supply.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c98p0pj7dypo

What’s the situation in Scotland? BBC Scotland had a worrying (for their elderly and vulnerable viewers) report of a 10% reduction in the number of donors but also that levels were currently safe with 95 000 active donors.

You know where I’m going. With 10 times the population you might expect England to have 950 000 active donors (almost their current target) but they only have 800 000.

So, Scotland thus has, per head, proportionally, pro rata, 18.75% more donors. This is a big difference and I’m not the only one commenting on how different Scotland is becoming. Prof Danny Dorling of Oxford University has been talking about this for some time:

This is another of those wee differences that put together mean Scotland is different and getting more so. Here are some others:

It’s a very different experience for pupils and teachers in Scotland and it works. Don’t let the inexpert but loud tell you otherwise. Get the facts here

Now THREE different sources of evidence confirm unambiguously that Scotland really has significantly lower crime levels after 17 years

Official figures reveal dramatic fall in murder by knives in Scotland, overall AND by young people, rubbishing the media reports that they are scared to go out

Leaving aside Operation Branchform where they’re being told what to do, even our police are different ie better, just as, more widely, Scotland is

Rape offences 2-3 times higher in England & Wales than in Scotland but they want you to think a different story about your country

The relative effectiveness of Scotland’s health services – so different from what Unionist politicians and their MSM allies portray in their gaslighting of Scotland’s electorate!

Scotland 17 years later and getting more different from the UK – better support for young carers

Oxford Professor confirms that Scotland had significantly lower Covid death rate due to Scot Gov ‘different’ approach and saved 1 000 lives

Funding the education of the disadvantaged – another way Scotland IS different

The brutally different realities, largely unreported, for pregnant asylum seekers in Scotland and England

‘Scotland on a different path to the rest of the UK’ as SNP progressive policies protect the majority

Crime plummets, staffing 50% higher than in England but Reporting Scotland peddle a different tale

Women prisoners: Scotland’s very different approach

Dementia care in Scotland is different, it’s free

‘Scots’ different enough to be different?

Covid-19: Have the Tories created a different less-concerned mindset in England?

Voting rights for all: One more thing adding up to Scotland being different enough to want to run its own show

25 ways Scotland is becoming more and more different from Hostile UK Inc

Scotland IS different as it protects unaccompanied children seeking asylum

There is no postcode lottery in NHS Scotland’s hospital death rates in sharp contrast with NHS England where you might worry where you go

Child poverty shocking 35% higher in England and Wales than in Scotland

Why has there been a massive but unreported reduction in the number of children on the child protection register in Scotland and a widening gap with the other 3 nations?