Help Talking-up Scotland keep going Crowdfunder at: https://www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/help-talking-up-scotland-keep-going Or by direct bank transfer to: JOHN WATSON ROBERTSON Sort Code – 08-91-04 Account – 12266421 AI just tells you what you want to hear? If it’s personal – how you should treat your wife or whether you have a good idea for a new business – yes, but if you ask it something it does not know is political and where there is published evidence – does the presence of a bad smell from a nearby sewage works in a hospital ward mean that the dangerous bacteria causing the smell is present too – it will tell you the … Continue reading The last word? Why a car park immediately beside raw sludge ponds is a poor location if the aim is to keep young cancer patients safe

Help Talking-up Scotland keep going Crowdfunder at: https://www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/help-talking-up-scotland-keep-going Or by direct bank transfer to: JOHN WATSON ROBERTSON Sort Code – 08-91-04 Account – 12266421 In 2019, The Times reported that a whistle-blower had told Anas Sarwar the pollution/proximity concern dated back to 2002, and the paper covered the subsequent inquiry interest in Shieldhall. Herald and others then reported sewage odour inside the new hospital after it opened. https://www.thetimes.com/uk/scotland/article/sewage-plant-probe-in-glasgow-queen-elizabeth-hospital-deaths-t2wbrcb2g Looking at the Royal Hospital for Children where the child cancer death much used by Anas Sarwar took place, the 5 ‘final’ settlement tanks are around 200m away with the raw sewage removal and tanks to the west, even closer, … Continue reading Sarwar knew from whistle-blowers in 2019 that the QEUH child cancer wards were vulnerable to significant bacterial aerosol infection from the raw sewage ponds less than 200m away

departments and aim to discharge patients from hospital within three days of admission, under new Scottish Government plans. Hospitals will also be required to focus on patients with life-threatening conditions and those needing specialist care, with others directed to alternative sources of healthcare. Help Talking-up Scotland keep going Crowdfunder at: https://www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/help-talking-up-scotland-keep-going Or by direct bank transfer to: JOHN WATSON ROBERTSON Sort Code – 08-91-04 Account – 12266421 BBC Reporting Scotland Down, today with the above , without context. What context? This? In March 2026, ITV News made it very clear, above, just how rare corridor care in Scotland was, in comparison with other parts of the UK – 4 times … Continue reading NHS Scotland ordered to cut corridor care from already the lowest by far in the UK and barely one-third of the level in Andy’s Manchester

Help Talking-up Scotland keep going Crowdfunder at: https://www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/help-talking-up-scotland-keep-going Or by direct bank transfer to: JOHN WATSON ROBERTSON Sort Code – 08-91-04 Account – 12266421 By stewartb ‘What can we do?’ – I wish I knew. I do hope the many ‘visitors’ offer up some useful ideas! Just one of the things that I value about TuS is its provision of ‘perspective’. So for what it’s worth, based on stats provided above and recently: 26,625 ‘visitors’ to TuS: £30,000 (crowdfunding target) divided by 26,625 = £1.12 per ‘visitor’. 1,591 TuS signed-up ‘subscribers’: £30,000 divided by 1,591 = £18.85 per annum per subscriber. 845 subscribers that are ‘confirmed’ (i.e. ‘actively receiving … Continue reading Funding Talking-up Scotland – What can we do?