high quality or compassionate care.

The top story everywhere in England today, the utterly damning findings of the Amos review of maternity care in England, being investigated by Nottingham Police as curiously ‘Operation Perth!’

You can smell the panic at BBC Scotland as they scrabble around their contacts to find something, anything, bad about NHS Scotland. There is no maternity crisis in Scotland. For proof of that see: https://talkingupscotlandtwo.com/2026/06/04/baroness-amos-is-investigating-8-000-cases-where-babies-may-have-died-or-been-seriously-harmed-by-inadequate-maternity-care-in-nhs-england-todays-report-into-the-qeuh-glasgow-mentions-none/

What do they do? First they find a one health board strike by some admin staff then use images of front line nurses to suggest that’s where these admin staff work.

backed strike action in a pay dispute. Ward clerks do things like helping manage waiting lists and patient transport and say they deserve a higher pay grade after taking on more responsibility during the Covid pandemic.

I don’t think you need that apron for admin unless the photocopier has leaked.

Then it’s straight on to:

months in a care home, almost 100 miles from where she lives.

They’ve resuscitated this one, one case, from March this year. Here is the truth of the case again:

One woman moved to a ‘lovely’ care home within one region headlines while a whole care system held together with ‘sticking plasters and glue’ does not – why might that be?