Professor John Robertson OBA
The Herald today has:
The revelation that children in Glasgow have been taken to England for vital heart surgery due to staff shortages at the Royal Hospital for Children has been branded an ‘appalling indictment’ of the management of NHS Scotland. It’s understood that due to a number of anaesthetists leaving the health centre, as well as some shorter notice absences in the wider staff, heart surgery has been suspended.
Who says it’s an appalling indictment? You know:
How many children? A ‘small number’ with no media outlet offering a figure so 2?
Is there much of a flow the other way?
From a Grok AI search:
Across reported periods (2014-2023), approximately 400-600 English patients have been sent to Scotland for eating disorder treatment, with ~300-450 likely being children or adolescents under 18, given the demographic focus of these referrals. This is a conservative estimate; unreported cases or other conditions (e.g., general pediatric care) could increase the figure slightly, but no broad data exists for non-mental health treatments.
Why Scotland? Scottish NHS units have more available beds and no equivalent “internal market” competition, allowing for more collaborative care.
Sources:
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2018/oct/16/nhs-england-eating-disorder-scotland-treatment
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Income from the Gov via the printing of Public Notices makes a big contribution to newspapers’ coffers.
Shortly after the SNP came to power in 2007 they announced that they were going to stop putting Public notices in the newspaper and use the Internet as a means of communicating the Public Notices. The money saved by this proposed change ran into many millions.
The newspapers were up in arms and the Unionist parties saw their opportunity to get some credit ‘in the bank’ with the newspapers if they stopped it. They did stop the proposal going ahead. Easy enough to do since the SNP were a minority Gov back then.
The sea change in the attitude/reporting in the Press with regards to the Scottish Gov was pretty well immediate. I am sure since then the UKGov and Unionist parties have found other ways to ‘supplement’ the income of newspapers to ensure their support for SNP Bad.
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