From Nursing Standard last week but for some reason I don’t understand, just appearing in one of my alerts today, the above and; Latest joint board papers for Northern Lincolnshire and Goole NHS Foundation Trust and Hull University Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust, both part of the NHS Humber Health Partnership (HHP), said ED overcrowding, plus operational and staffing pressures were contributing factors in the cases. The trusts run five hospitals between them. Both incidents took place at the Hull Royal Infirmary in 2024. HHP said it had since introduced a mandatory training package for nursing staff to assess, recognise and treat deteriorating patients, … Continue reading Sepsis deaths in error still happening in NHS England 18 years after SNP Government took steps to prevent them

has dropped by a million since the fire near Central Station in March. Notably missing are the figures we need to see how big a percentage that 1million is and neither Glasgow Chamber of Commerce nor BBC Scotland have posted these. That’s very interesting because on 7th April the same BBC Scotland reporter, Jamie McIvor, told us this: Glasgow city centre is proving “remarkably resilient” after the recent fire in Union Street, according to new statistics. Glasgow Chamber of Commerce said the number of people in the city centre every day – including workers and shoppers – was back at … Continue reading ‘Glasgow city centre is proving remarkably resilient after the recent fire’ and drop in footfall is part of a longer trend unconnected to the fire but BBC Scotland is hiding that from you for some reason today

Any rape is shocking and utterly unacceptable but a rape in Glasgow, reported with no context, reinforces an outdated but deeply embedded stereotypical image of the city. BBC Reporting Scotland, based in Glasgow offered no explanatory context last night. Is rape an increasing offence and is it higher than the Scottish average. In the last 5 years, that seems to be true though several researchers put the increase down to more victims having the courage to come forward, better policing and historical cases being dealt with. From Recorded Crime in Scotland: year ending December 2025 Published 24 February 2026 Source: … Continue reading A rape in Glasgow shocks as it should but a proper news service should tell you it’s an offence twice as common across even average places in England & Wales

Iain Kennedy, GP PT, poses, POSES, with a stethoscope trying to remember when he last used it, reflected by himself posing again in the mirror. Kennedy, known for the Union Flag in his twitter account, has been missing recently, as his bosses in BMA UK have praised the SNP Government’s recent respectful dealings with their colleagues resulting in NO, NO NHS strikes.. He’s back today, in Scotland on Sunday with this: Reality? This one? This one? This one? This one? This one? Oh come on Iain. What don’t you like about these? Continue reading Return of the Poseur – BMA Scotland’s Dr Iain Kennedy gets over BMA UK’s fondness for SNP Government’s respectful dealings which meant NO NHS strikes to dishonestly attack the SNP

In the place where you can trust it to provide fake news, The Herald, another of Neil Mackay’s ‘Horrible Hyperbole‘ series, yesterday. I take the laughable graphic was done by the same guy who delights in wee girls in red running down dangerous alleyways clearly in Rochdale and sad wee rough-sleepers to represent weans in temporary accomodation. Neil writes: ‘It’s been a while now since the myth that Scotland was immune to racist and fascist extremism melted away. Once, we thought we were above all that; neo-Nazi thugs on the street was an English phenomenon, we naively believed So, around … Continue reading Scotland’s Ross Kemp spots Blackshirts ‘on our streets’

From Memorandum submitted by the Scottish Drug Enforcement Agency (CS 1) submitted to the UK Parliament in May 2003! The great majority of Class A drugs enter Scotland across the English border, either as a result of secondary distribution in England or drugs destined for Scotland but smuggled through English ports. Crime groups make extensive use of the UK infrastructure, particularly the motorway networks. https://publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm200203/cmselect/cmsctech/911-i/3070102.htm From Police Scotland yesterday: From BBC Scotland in July 2020: Routes like the M74 (a key northbound motorway from England) are practically significant for enforcement. Police Scotland’s Organised Crime and Counter Terrorism Unit frequently conducts … Continue reading When illegal drugs have been flooding across your border for more than 20 years you need to really toughen it up