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 From Largest number of Freedom of Information requests made by a single person in one day: FOI release, published today: For the year 2023, the largest amount of FOI’s made to the Scottish Government in one day by a single individual is 43. For the year 2024, the largest amount of FOI’s made to the Scottish Government in one day by a single individual is 80. For the year 2025, the largest amount of FOI’s made to the … Continue reading More than 68 000 freedom of information requests in 10 years costing you the taxpayer £20 million – who has been doing all those?

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 In the Guardian today: More than 400 lives may have been saved as a result of Martha’s rule, which lets NHS patients request a review of their care, official figures reveal. Helplines received more than 10,000 calls in the first 16 months of the scheme after its introduction in England in 2024, according to data seen by the Guardian. Thousands of patients were either moved to intensive care, received drugs they needed or benefited from other changes as a direct result of … Continue reading Why NHS Scotland has not had to wait for Martha’s rule to deal with Labour’s ‘death traps’ of hospital acquired infections

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 The Daily Record today, has the above and: Robert Menzies, an architect who worked on the super-hospital, slammed the refusal of Scottish ministers to replace discredited Kingspan K15 cladding. Robert Menzies played a part in the building’s design process as a consultant/architect involved in technical and review aspects, which would have encompassed safety considerations (including fire safety engineering elements he has since critiqued). But he was not the principal designer or a dedicated fire safety engineer; his contributions … Continue reading Three reasons why QEUH will never have a Grenfell-like ‘towering inferno’

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 In the Herald today, based on an interview with Dr Joanna Bredski, Consultant Psychiatrist in Borders Region, formerly in Yorkshire, chair of the BMA Scotland Consultant’s committee, this crazed headline In 2023/2024, the most recent official figures, 4.3% of NHS Scotland consultants left.1 In the same year, the figure for NHS England was 4.9%, 14% higher.2 Does the good doctor have any explanation as to why we have fewer rats quitting? Fewer opportunities for lucrative private work in … Continue reading 14% more NHS England consultants quitting ‘like rats on sinking ship’

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 From BBC Scotland yesterday, the above and: The leader of Reform UK in Scotland has denied fuelling racial tensions with comments he made following a stabbing in Edinburgh. Malcom Offord has been criticised by both Scottish Labour and the Scottish Greens for linking the incident in the Calders area on Monday to a “massive insurge of immigrants”., external Lord Offord said he based his comments on photographs he had seen and claimed statistics showed a rise in crime by people … Continue reading Reform’s Scottish leader may or may not be racist but he’s definitely wrong as knife crime falls in Scotland