Professor John Robertson OBA Thanks to Anonymous for alerting us to this: Scotland’s own app can do more than Mr Streeting’s app! Following initial roll-out, MyCare will be expanded to hospital-based services, BEFORE including other areas of the health and social care system, including GP practices, pharmacy, social work and social care. https://www.gov.scot/news/scotlands-new-health-and-social-care-app/ The NHS England app does claim to include GP services and pharmacies but has no link to social work or social care. https://www.england.nhs.uk/long-read/social-prescribing-reference-guide-and-technical-annex-for-primary-care-networks/ Talking-up Scotland’s special crowd funder has closed but you can support at any time at: https://www.crowdfunder.co.uk/checkout/help-talking-up-scotland-tell-truth-about-scotland/payment/nBQxjVzq/details or by direct bank transfer method – Bernadette/John … Continue reading Scotland’s own NHS app can do more than Mr Streeting’s app!

From the Scottish government’s news site YESTERDAY and, as far as we can see reported by no other media outlet than the Highland Times. Thanks to cuckooshoe for alerting us to this: The number of operations performed in July was the highest in five years, according to Public Health Scotland statistics published today. The data shows that 23,470 operations were carried out in July, an 8.9% increase compared to July of last year. This figure is the highest since February 2020, before the COVID-19 pandemic. Over the past 12 months to July 2025, a total of 265,060 operations were performed, … Continue reading NHS Scotland Hits Five-Year High for operations but who will tell you that?

Professor John Robertson OBA In the Times on 30 September 2025, the above and: Wes Streeting has attacked the SNP over its “shameful” failure to launch an NHS app for Scottish patients. The UK health secretary told the Labour conference that while progress was being made in England and Wales on tackling waiting lists and harnessing innovative new technologies in the health service, standards were continuing to deteriorate in Scotland. He highlighted the failure of the Nationalist government to launch an app for the health service — one has been in use in England for the past six years. Oooh, … Continue reading How Wes Streeting’s NHS app has failed the people of England

Professor John Robertson OBA From Richmond News 24 April 2025: Right now, B.C. Ferries, which according to the union carries more than 21 million passengers and $8 billion in cargo each year, receives about $35 million annually from Ottawa.1 BC Ferries has 41 vessels serving 47 locations to 21 million passengers per year.2 CalMac has 36 vessels serving 50 locations to only 5.3 million passengers per year.3 Yet the Scottish Government, from taxpayers living in places like Glasgow, Kilmarnock, Coatbridge and Dundee, will be a bit more generous than BC: Transport Scotland is proposing a total subsidy of £3.7 billion over a 10-year period for CalMac Ferries Limited … Continue reading As the Herald insists island communities deserve ferry services that are fit for purpose how they get 10 TIMES the subsidy for their ferries than those in more affluent British Columbia, to keep fares amongst the lowest in the developed world