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Access to an NHS dentist in Scotland is twice that in affluent Wiltshire

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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 BBC Wiltshire yesterday: The British Dental Association (BDA) has warned of an “unprecedented collapse” in dentistry, with many dentists pulling out of NHS contracts because they are overworked and underfunded. Earlier this month, the Hathaway Dental Practice in Chippenham, said it would no longer provide NHS services to its patients from 1 November. It said the practice had lost four NHS dentists in the past few months, and received no applicants when it put out an advert for replacements. A report published in … Continue reading Access to an NHS dentist in Scotland is twice that in affluent Wiltshire

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As US tech firm which supplies Israeli forces and which risks patient safety is signed up by another Labour council in England how the SNP Government has protected you from them

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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: Public sector workers have voiced “deep concern” after Coventry city council signed a £500,000-a-year artificial intelligence contract with the US data technology company Palantir. The deal is the first of its kind between a UK local authority and the Denver-based company, which supplies technology to the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) and to help Donald Trump’s mass deportation efforts. Palantir already has a number of public sector contracts in the UK, including providing AI to help tackle organised crime in Leicestershire and building the … Continue reading As US tech firm which supplies Israeli forces and which risks patient safety is signed up by another Labour council in England how the SNP Government has protected you from them

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Why don’t BBC Scotland want to tell you about Scotland’s first walk-in mental health hubs?

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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 STV, yesterday, the above and: Scotland’s largest mental health charity has unveiled plans for a £10m network of walk-in support centres. I searched for – ‘BBC Scotland first walk-in mental health hub‘ and got the same STV report, the Daily Record, the Herald, the Glasgow Times and even the Rangers Charity Foundation covering it. The reports are not actually that SNP-friendly but BBC Scotland? Just this: What’s going wrong with our mental health? Martin Geissler and Laura Miller ask why so … Continue reading Why don’t BBC Scotland want to tell you about Scotland’s first walk-in mental health hubs?

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Dr Kennedy BMA (Anti-Scotland) on Herald frontpage to hide this fact – ‘Controversial’ physician associates more than twice as common in NHS England than in NHS Scotland

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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 By Professor John Robertson OBA, The role of physician associates [PA] is at the centre of controversy after the BMA sued the GMC over how they are to be described. Today, the BMA in Scotland, ‘top’ (not at all) doctor, Iain Kennedy, is on the front page of the Herald, to attack SNP ministers over the use of physician associates (PA)s in Scotland. What are PAs? Physician associates (PAs) are medically trained [but not full MD training], generalist healthcare professionals who work with doctors in multidisciplinary … Continue reading Dr Kennedy BMA (Anti-Scotland) on Herald frontpage to hide this fact – ‘Controversial’ physician associates more than twice as common in NHS England than in NHS Scotland

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As one tragic Sepsis death is milked by the media why don’t they tell you hospital acquired infections under the SNP are between a fifth and a half of the level in 2006, under Labour, an eighth of the level in England and a third of the level in Europe?

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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 Headlining on BBC Scotland today, the above tragic case and: Prosecutors have opened an investigation into the death of a young woman seven years after she became seriously ill with a hospital-acquired infection in Glasgow. Molly Cuddihy, 23, died in the high dependency unit of the Queen Elizabeth University Hospital (QEUH) in the city on Tuesday. In 2018 Molly developed septic shock while receiving cancer treatment at the same hospital campus, which is now at the centre of a public inquiry into … Continue reading As one tragic Sepsis death is milked by the media why don’t they tell you hospital acquired infections under the SNP are between a fifth and a half of the level in 2006, under Labour, an eighth of the level in England and a third of the level in Europe?

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In a media vacuum Scotland’s unique 100% record-breaking IVF programme brings life and saves lives but is never reported

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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 IVF waiting times in Scotland Quarter ending 30 June 2025 published yesterday: During the quarter ending 30 June 2025, 320 patients were screened. The 90% standard was met, with all patients attending a screening appointment within 52 weeks of referral. 38.8% were treated in 0-13 weeks, 30.9% in 14-26, 9.4% in 27-39 and 20.9 in 40-52 weeks.1 The target has been met consistently since 2016, 70% in half the time, but never ever reported in the media. Why is it more … Continue reading In a media vacuum Scotland’s unique 100% record-breaking IVF programme brings life and saves lives but is never reported

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Official figures reveal nearly 92% of children and adolescents treated within target and half of them within 5 weeks for mental health care but the Record trusts Alex Cole-Hamilton better

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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 Above, the truth the Daily Record did not publish today. Below, what they did publish On June 4th 2025 (my 74th birthday), I wrote: NHS Scotland beat a waiting times target for the second time in a row despite increased demand – how will the media spin this to get SNPBad? I’m ahead of BBC Scotland, as I write at 11.02am, but I can smell them scurrying around, phoning someone who can be trusted to say the statistics, the same stats they … Continue reading Official figures reveal nearly 92% of children and adolescents treated within target and half of them within 5 weeks for mental health care but the Record trusts Alex Cole-Hamilton better

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‘Patients are suffering?’ Yet Scotland has almost twice as many GPs per head as England and Wales and around half a million more Scots report easy access to a GP than would have if they lived there instead

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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 BBC Reporting Scotland this morning has a short report starting with: GPs say patients are suffering because of ongoing funding problems This is not even based on one of the BMA’s typically flawed and unreliable surveys of their members. I’t’s ‘The BMA Doctors union’ saying it, so that’ll be just Iain Kennedy again. Is there anything Dr Kennedy never tells you? Just this: FTE GPs per 100,000 population: England: ~44.3 (June 2025, based on FTE) Wales: ~51 (September 2024, based on FTE … Continue reading ‘Patients are suffering?’ Yet Scotland has almost twice as many GPs per head as England and Wales and around half a million more Scots report easy access to a GP than would have if they lived there instead

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UK Government researchers say 25% of England’s drug deaths not counted to cast serious doubt on Scotland having the highest level

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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 In the last few days, several media, including the Daily Record have used reports from the Festival of Politics at Holyrood chaired by SNP MSP Audrey Nicoll, which was primarily concerned with the debate over safe injections rooms and legalisation, to trot out the ‘Scotland has worst drug deaths in UK and/or Europe.‘ Readers will know that international comparisons of health, education, crime and other statistics can be highly problematic but, for some reason, Scotland’s drug death comparisons are taken at face … Continue reading UK Government researchers say 25% of England’s drug deaths not counted to cast serious doubt on Scotland having the highest level

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Another careless cartoon from the Herald’s Camley as facts reveal that Scotland’s care system is FOUR times as effective as that in England

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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‘s Steven Camley cartoon today show a glum Health Secretary being greeted by support staff with: ‘I must say minister you’re looking well after your summer of inactivity.’ It’s about criticism of Scotland’s care system by a representative of the private sector just wanting more cash for a business already well-known as a ‘cash-cow‘ for corporations and which has no space for these important facts: If this was more than just another badly drawn image on behalf of corporations and other … Continue reading Another careless cartoon from the Herald’s Camley as facts reveal that Scotland’s care system is FOUR times as effective as that in England