Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services (CAMHS) waiting times approaching 90% target and waiting list slashed by massive 26%
By Professor John Robertson OBA From Public Health Scotland today: 84.1% of children and young people started treatment within 18 weeks of referral, which is an increase from the 73.8% for the same quarter ending June 2023. The Scottish Government standard states that 90% of children and young people should start treatment within 18 weeks of referral to CAMHS. 4,374 children and young people started treatment at CAMHS in Scotland. This is a 7.8% increase from the 4,056 starting treatment in the previous quarter. 4,942 children and young people were waiting to start treatment at quarter ending June 2024 which is a decrease … Continue reading Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services (CAMHS) waiting times approaching 90% target and waiting list slashed by massive 26%
Psychological treatment – NHS Scotland regularly beats the NHS Wales target they cannot ever meet under Labour
By Professor John Robertson OBA From Public Health Scotland today: 80.2% of people of all ages started their treatment within 18 weeks of referral, compared to 79.3% of people for the previous quarter, and 78.8% of people for the quarter ending June 2023. 50% of the people of all ages starting treatment started within 4 weeks of referral, which is the same as the previous quarter and for quarter ending June 2023. https://www.publichealthscotland.scot/publications/psychological-therapies-waiting-times/psychological-therapies-waiting-times-quarter-ending-june-2024/ 18 weeks? 90%? In NHS Wales, under less-ambitious Labour: Welsh Government aims for 80% of people to access specialist psychological therapies within six months [26 weeks] of a … Continue reading Psychological treatment – NHS Scotland regularly beats the NHS Wales target they cannot ever meet under Labour
Despite steady increase in planned operations, NHS Scotland remains staffed and resourced to tackle 98% on time
By Professor John Robertson OBA From Public Health Scotland today, we can see (bold black dotted line) a steady increase in the number of operations planned, in the month ending July 2024, to 23 813, an 8.8% increase on the previous year. Despite that, operations cancelled due to unavailability of staff of resources (eg unplanned disease outbreaks or surges in emergency treatment of serious injury after accidents), remains at around 2%. This is evidence of a stunningly efficient system worthy of far greater recognition than our media ever give it. Source: https://www.publichealthscotland.scot/publications/cancelled-planned-operations/cancelled-planned-operations-month-ending-31-july-2024/ The OBA – https://scotsindependent.scot/?page_id=116 Continue reading Despite steady increase in planned operations, NHS Scotland remains staffed and resourced to tackle 98% on time
County Lines gangs from Birmingham, Derby, Liverpool and London targeted by Scottish police chief but BBC Scotland too busy with seabirds and walking three days for a pint
Nearly 5 years ago BBC Scotland reported ‘County lines’: Aberdeenshire, Perthshire and Highlands targeted by drugs gangs. They haven’t mentioned them since. Today, in the Northern Times: Chief Superintendent Robert Shepherd reveals expansion of team targeting County Lines gangs in bid to create a ‘hostile’ environment. Highland’s top cop has revealed the force has expanded the team dedicated to tackling County Lines gangs from Birmingham, Derby, Liverpool and London to create as “hostile” an environment as possible for organised crime. Chief Superintendent Robert Shepherd’s Police Performance report is due to be delivered at Highland Council this week and highlighted the … Continue reading County Lines gangs from Birmingham, Derby, Liverpool and London targeted by Scottish police chief but BBC Scotland too busy with seabirds and walking three days for a pint
Incompetent Labour Government in Wales to make 50% greater cuts than Scottish Government
Thanks to AR for alerting me to this. In June 2024, BBC Wales reported: In the Welsh government’s draft budget for 2024-25 it proposed cuts of £422m to areas outside the NHS and Transport for Wales, with ministers blaming a lack of funding from Westminster and inflation eroding the spending power of the funds available. With 1.7 times the population, that would translate to £735 million in cuts in Scotland but, from BBC Scotland today the cuts are estimated to be only ‘over’ £500 million. So, pro rata, per head, proportionally, Labour Wales is making almost 50% higher cuts – … Continue reading Incompetent Labour Government in Wales to make 50% greater cuts than Scottish Government
Research reveals Brexiteers and Scottish unionists more narrowly nationalistic than Scottish independence supporters
By Professor John Robertson OBA From British Social Attitudes 41 | National Identity, released today: Those who support being outside the EU are more likely than those in favour of membership to think family matters to people’s identity – but those who back Scottish independence are less likely than its opponents to take this view. Across Britain, 78% of those who support Brexit believe having been born in Britain is important to being ‘truly British’, compared with 45% of those who favour EU membership. As you might expect, Brexiteers are far more likely to be racist in this sense. In Scotland, … Continue reading Research reveals Brexiteers and Scottish unionists more narrowly nationalistic than Scottish independence supporters
Others who are more than able to ‘take the hit’ financially are being ignored by Labour
Anonymous The irritating, frustrating yet wearily predictable thing about Labour and some of the pro UK media just now is that , part of that pro UK media, have somehow willingly bought into this line (spin) that Labour are pushing that they, as the new UK government, have been forced to make specific painful “Cuts that they did not want to make”. That same section of the pro UK media however are not challenging them, Labour, on why they are making these particular “cuts” mainly only upon some of the most vulnerable groups in society while others who are more than able to ‘take the hit’ financially are being ignored by Labour. Meanwhile here in Scotland that same media, indeed pretty much all of the UK media , are currently challenging and questioning why the Scottish government are daring to state … Continue reading Others who are more than able to ‘take the hit’ financially are being ignored by Labour
Pensioners must then be assumed by Labour as being easy targets
Anonymous So there is blog by a freelance Journalist who is called David Henke. He has written a piece in respect to: “1950s born women to face a quadruple whammy to their hopes over compensation, heating allowances, fuel bills and new taxes” Mr Henke notes that since Labour came to power “pensioners rather than the better off have been singled out to pay the price to balance the books of running the country” He also states a very pertinent point in that Pensioners are those in society who “often are not in the best of health, have worked most of their life … Continue reading Pensioners must then be assumed by Labour as being easy targets
More than FOUR times as many “fleeing rising classroom violence and falling standards in England’s schools”
By Professor John Robertson OBA My thanks to namorrodor for alerting me to this. In the Telegraph‘s May 2024, Surge in homeschooling in Scotland amid rising classroom violence and falling standards, they reported: Figures released by Scottish councils show that over 2,200 children are currently being educated at home, an increase of 40 per cent in just two years. The total has more than doubled in seven years.1 With 10 times the population, all things being equal, that’d be 22 000 in England. BUT, according to Department of Education figure reported in the Conversation, two days ago, there were 92 000 … Continue reading More than FOUR times as many “fleeing rising classroom violence and falling standards in England’s schools”
As female suicide falls, BBC Scotland have a suicide murder ‘fest’ to keep you anxious and averse to leaving the ‘comforts’ of the Union
By Professor John Robertson OBA BBC Scotland‘s heartlessly titled Disclosure show, once more ignores the major crime worry for all of us – English County Lines drug gangs currently terrorising a town near you, and omits the fact that, according to the National Records of Scotland, suicide by women fell last year. In their BBC Breakfast insert this morning, they only had a Young Offenders Institute, Polmont, suicide, their Disclosure suicide teaser (above) and the possible visit of the mother of a 2021 English murder victim to a memorial in Edinburgh. Then it was on to rain and rain. BBC Scotland … Continue reading As female suicide falls, BBC Scotland have a suicide murder ‘fest’ to keep you anxious and averse to leaving the ‘comforts’ of the Union
