Please Support Talking-up Scotland at:https://www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/support-talking-up-scotlandClick on the above. From Hospital Standardised Mortality Ratios (HSMR) October 2024 to September 2025 published today, we can see below, that the regularly but unfairly criticised Queen Elizabeth University Hospital in Glasgow, is not just as safe as any other in Scotland but is, in fact, safer than the average with a 3.7% mortality rate and 182 fewer deaths than anticipated, giving it a 0.94 hospital standardised mortality ratio. It’s also much safer than its namesake in England. This won’t be reported but you can be sure if it was different, a higher than average … Continue reading A Tale of Two Queen Elisabeth hospitals – stay away from the one in Norfolk

Please Support Talking-up Scotland at:https://www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/support-talking-up-scotlandClick on the above. From Why buses matter for health and reducing transport poverty, research published today: Bus use has positive impacts on health and mental wellbeing through access to services, physical activity and social inclusion. Bus passengers may be exposed to air pollution, noise and injuries but these impacts also affect other road users. Some bus users, particularly women, may experience or fear harassment on buses or at bus stops. Bus drivers may experience adverse health impacts from diesel exposure, shift work, ergonomic issues and interactions with abusive passengers. The lack of bus services to … Continue reading Research reveals Scotland’s free bus travel has positive impacts on health and mental wellbeing beyond schemes in the rest of the UK but it’s not getting media attention

Please Support Talking-up Scotland at:https://www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/support-talking-up-scotlandClick on the above.Or direct bank transfer at Sort Code 08-91-04 Account – 12266421 Name – JOHN ROBERTSON Headlining on BBC UK TV broadcasts too, the above story makes these damning comments: A BBC investigation has found sepsis awareness training is still not mandatory at most hospitals in Wales, and Bethan’s parents fear that what happened to their daughter could still happen to others. This included at the hospital where Bethan died and the Welsh government said sepsis awareness was a “focus” and a “priority”, while the Welsh Ambulance Service said “meaningful changes” had been made. … Continue reading As Labour Wales still fails on Sepsis deaths, how under Scottish Labour, hospitals were ‘death traps’ of hospital acquired infections and how Nicola Sturgeon sorted it

Please Support Talking-up Scotland at:https://www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/support-talking-up-scotlandClick on the above. Above the complete media coverage of a major Scottish Government announcement on school funding, 16 hours after it was first posted. They have no time as they feast on that unattractive figure, Anas Sarwar, who has just turned snarling and biting at the wounded figure of his former boss, Sir Keir Starmer. A classic head boy bully he’s so brave now. Of course, they have no time for this as they try once more to push Sarwar’s fourth place wheels out of the mud Spending on schools across Scotland has increased by … Continue reading Spending on schools across Scotland has increased by more than £1 billion but in a media vacuum

Please Support Talking-up Scotland at:https://www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/support-talking-up-scotlandClick on the above. Sobering feedback that? I know, TuS gets lots of kindly and encouraging words but only 1 in 100 rate it worth even £1. 14 937 discrete visitors in February 2026 but only 139 make a contribution to the crowd funder, 0.9%, less than 1 in a 100? I wouldn’t be human if I didn’t wonder, what I’m doing here. 7 days a weeks, 340 days, 1 700 hours, a year, 5-7 posts a day to earn, at 74 with all my qualies, less than £1 an hour. don’t tell my wife! If … Continue reading Since the crowdfunder started only 9 days ago, nearly 15 thousand distinct readers at Talking-up Scotland but fewer than 1 in a 100 felt it was worth a contribution?

Please Support Talking-up Scotland at:https://www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/support-talking-up-scotlandClick on the above. In BBC Scotland‘s short insert in BBC Breakfast, several times this morning: Hospice leaders say Scotland must must address a severe shortage of end-of-life care for those living with terminal illnesses in rural communities. Next month MSPs face a final vote on assisted dying legislation but the debate has raised concerns that those without access to good palliative care might instead choose assisted death. The Scottish Government has… For those of us regularly monitoring BBC Scotland, that linking of negative news to the Scottish Government is common and this is another of … Continue reading Assisted dying – Rural hospice staff shortages for palliative care will be UK Labour Government’s responsibility but BBC Scotland try to pass it on to Holyrood