Professor John Robertson OBA From Cancelled planned operations Month Ending 31 May 2025 published today, the above graph and: Of all planned operations during May 2025 in NHSScotland, 819 (3.3%) were cancelled by the hospital for clinical reasons, 692 (2.8%) were cancelled by the patient, 437 (1.7%) were cancelled by the hospital due to capacity or non-clinical reasons, and 71 (0.3%) were cancelled for other reasons. https://www.publichealthscotland.scot/publications/cancelled-planned-operations/cancelled-planned-operations-month-ending-31-may-2025/ Only those operations cancelled by the hospital due to capacity or non-clinical reasons (1.7%) can be considered in anyway a negative performance indicator. They are likely to be the unanticipated result of staff … Continue reading Deeply impressive – NHS Scotland fully ready to operate on more than 98% of more than 25 000 operations in May 2025 but you won’t hear that anywhere else

Image – https://www.homecare-scotland.co.uk/services Professor John Robertson OBA From Delayed discharges in NHS Scotland monthly Figures for May 2025 published today, we see that the number of delayed bed days occupied in a calendar month peaked at 46 150 in October 2024 and has been in a falling trend since, for six months, to 43 933 in March 2025. That’s a fall of 2 217 days, or 4.8%. How is this contributing to and benefiting from Scotland’s better integrated health and care system? This: Source: https://www.publichealthscotland.scot/publications/delayed-discharges-in-nhsscotland-monthly/delayed-discharges-in-nhsscotland-monthly-figures-for-may-2025/downloads/ Continue reading Significant fall in ‘bed-blocking’ in just six months as Scotland’s better integrated health and care system improves further

Professor John Robertson OBA Above, a hospital in England where the A&E roof really did collapse but when Kilbarchan-based playwright, Uma Nada-Rajah, wrote Black Hole Sign for the Traverse Theatre, to be shown this autumn, she set it in Glasgow. When a hole appears in the roof of a crumbling and understaffed A&E department, patients, porters and nurses do what they must to make it through the night. Senior charge nurse Crea strives to deliver sage and effective care while porter Billy angles after a date. Staff nurse Ani juggles her bursting caseload, knowing that no one has come to … Continue reading The cringe lives on – the deep irony of setting a play about a collapsing A&E service in Glasgow

Professor John Robertson OBA The Ferret factchecker today has: Revealed: The mega farms polluting the environment with excrement – Mega farms in Scotland, including some with more than a million animals, have repeatedly leaked excrement and failed to monitor contamination, putting humans, wildlife and the environment at risk, The Ferret can reveal. By failing to responsibly contain or dispose of slurry, wastewater and harmful air particles these industrial-sized farms were responsible for 126 breaches of green regulations between May 2022 and November 2024. The rule breaking is revealed in inspection reports compiled by the Scottish Environment Protection Agency (Sepa), which … Continue reading English mega farms polluting the Scottish environment with excrement and air pollution and exploiting the weakness of devolved environmental legislation which only full independence would resolve