Support Talking-up Scotland’s work to counter the lies and get you the facts, daily, at: https://www.crowdfunder.co.uk/checkout/help-talking-up-scotland-tell-truth-about-scotland/payment/nBQxjVzq/details Professor John Robertson OBA From People requiring a social care assessment and care at home services published yesterday The estimated number of people assessed and waiting for a care at home package [in Scotland] was 3,264 on 4 August 2025. This [fell in the last week] represents an increase of just under 2% from the estimated number of people waiting for a care at home package this time last year on 5 August 2024.1 From Adult social care in England, monthly statistics: July 2025 [most recent … Continue reading Waiting list for a care at home package 50% longer in England than in Scotland – Imagine that was the other way round?

Support Talking-up Scotland’s work to counter the lies and get you the facts, daily, at: https://www.crowdfunder.co.uk/checkout/help-talking-up-scotland-tell-truth-about-scotland/payment/nBQxjVzq/details Professor John Robertson OBA The Herald today is reporting the above 5 year total in their usual juvenile style to get a big number for the headline. Here is the annual breakdown: So, taking account of the inevitably lower figures during the pandemic, a relatively flat trend, perhaps falling in 2025? Are these big numbers? NHS England have solved their problem by just not recording these events, since 2017, but in 2018, a Blackwater Law Freedom of Information request, reported 20,235 serious incidents across 228 NHS … Continue reading Significant Adverse Events running at TWICE the level in NHS England and NHS Wales to confirm leading European experts views on patient safety in NHS Scotland

Support Talking-up Scotland’s work to counter the lies and get you the facts, daily, at: https://www.crowdfunder.co.uk/checkout/help-talking-up-scotland-tell-truth-about-scotland/payment/nBQxjVzq/details Professor John Robertson OBA Today, in the Guardian: Thames Water has agreed a payment plan with the water regulator for fines it owes worth £123m, as it races to secure funding to avoid temporary nationalisation. The water company, which serves 16 million customers across London and the south-east, is currently trying to pull together a deal to avoid collapse. Earlier this month the government approved the appointment of insolvency advisers FTI Consulting to consult on plans for Thames Water to be placed into a special administration regime. The … Continue reading Thames Water’s sewage spill fines 5 THOUSAND times greater in one year than for Scottish Water since 2019

Support Talking-up Scotland’s work to counter the lies and get you the facts, daily, at: https://www.crowdfunder.co.uk/checkout/help-talking-up-scotland-tell-truth-about-scotland/payment/nBQxjVzq/details Professor John Robertson OBA From Increase in numbers of newly qualified paramedics published 25 August 2025: Health Secretary Neil Gray has welcomed an increase in the number of newly qualified paramedics joining the Scottish Ambulance Service, with 360 new recruits joining the service since 2023. New figures show a steep increase in recruitment between 2022-23 and 2023-24, and a total recruitment of 489 since 2020. The investment in newly qualified paramedics is designed to give the service more resilience, improve capacity and increase the number of … Continue reading Major increase in numbers of newly qualified paramedics though NHS Scotland already has an astonishing 50% more per head than England

Support Talking-up Scotland’s work to counter the lies and get you the facts, daily, at: https://www.crowdfunder.co.uk/checkout/help-talking-up-scotland-tell-truth-about-scotland/payment/nBQxjVzq/details Professor John Robertson OBA The ‘Scottish’ media had been getting themselves into a right tizzy yesterday hopefully anticipating reduced GP numbers to reinforce the above story from BMA (Anti-Scotland) about how difficult it is to access over-worked GPs. The results didn’t helped them so they’re not looking. First there are more GPs, 3 591.5 in 2024/2025 compared 3453.1 to last year, 138 more, but for the Daily Record ever creative, that was down on the randomly selected 2019 figure of 3 613, a only 21.5 more. … Continue reading ‘If I die, it’s your fault for employing more GPs?’ No wait…..there are MORE? Didn’t someone predict fewer on the Telly this morning? They’re working harder too so…the Record is confused

Support Talking-up Scotland’s work to counter the lies and get you the facts, daily, at: https://www.crowdfunder.co.uk/checkout/help-talking-up-scotland-tell-truth-about-scotland/payment/nBQxjVzq/details Professor John Robertson OBA From Recorded Crime in Scotland: year ending June 2025 published yesterday (plain text), Crime in England and Wales: year ending March 2025 published on 24 July 2025 (italics) and my comments (bold): The Police in Scotland recorded 303,343 crimes in the year ending June 2025. This was 1% higher than the 300,078 crimes recorded in the year ending June 2024, and 1% higher than the 300,747 crimes recorded in the year ending June 2021. In England and Wales, 9.4 million incidents of … Continue reading Crime in Scotland climbs by 1% but still remains at barely a third of the level in England & Wales where it climbs by 7% – imagine the media if that was the other way round?