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Professor John Robertson OBA
The above 100 000 refers of course to the whole of the UK and not just Scotland. I don’t have time to fully investigate another scare story like this, but quickly:
First, overall, there is no postcode lottery in Scotland’s hospitals and Glasgow’s super hospital is actually safer than average
From Hospital Standardised Mortality Ratios April 2024 to March 2025 published today, the above graph reveals that all of Scotland’s hospitals have mortality ratios within the normal range confirming the complete absence of any postcode lottery here.
Of particular interest, the large Queen Elizabeth University Hospital, extreme right, often unjustly criticised in media and serving one of the most disadvantaged populations in Scotland, has a below average mortality ration of 3.7, below the Scottish average.
In England, we see more evidence of a two-tier system here with a cluster of hospitals in affluent areas revealing as many as 700 fewer deaths than predicted and others in the north, with the same number, in excess of even predictions made in the full knowledge of the local poverty-levels. In England, it makes a huge difference to your chances if you attend in Chelsea as opposed to Lancashire.
https://digital.nhs.uk/data-and-information/publications/statistical/shmi/2025-07johnrobertson834Edit
Second, on one aspect of cancer care:
From Public Health Scotland today:
711,189 women were invited, and 539,575 attended, a routine breast screening appointment. This equates to more than three in four women (75.9%) taking up their screening invitations. This is an increase on the previous three-year period (2019/22), when uptake was 74.5%, and pre-pandemic (2017/20), when uptake was 72.2%.
All NHS boards individually met the acceptable uptake standard of 70% for the three-year period (2020/23): This is the second time this has happened since 2008/11, with the first time being the 2019/2022 period.
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I am heartily sick of TV announcers using ‘UK’ when broadcasting devolved matters like health, for instance. It’s time to stop this and use the country they REALLY mean when they say “throughout the UK”, the country the people are so proud of that they are vandalising buildings and cars by covering them with red crosses. This England!
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Has The English MSM which poses as ”Scottish” newspapers EVER published a positive headline about Scotland since the SNP came to power ?
Every day they demonstrate their lack of journalistic credibility ( and their lack of morality ) with anti-SNP scary headlines which are comparable to the kind used against the Nazis in WW2 .
Anyone from another planet reading these stories about how EVERYTHING in Scotland is Sh*t would wonder why the whole country hadn’t been condemned and boarded up decades ago !
And ,of course , the BBC gets much of its own anti-Scottish stories from this source .
Why does anyone with a modicum of respect for their country buy these disgraceful rags ?
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Colonial media. Makeitup.com
Keep the Jockos in their place, under the flag of old Engerlund. Same as the St George P.J’s that Squire Keir-rio wears at nicht.
Slay the dragons wi his big lance!
Tho’ the Welsh dragon will slay Labour in 2026 it looks like!
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