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England’s NHS underperformance day, bed-blocking, community care and road deaths set BBC Scotland an impossible task to match the misery – first the NHS

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The Talking-up Scotland fund raiser primarily to enable the recruitment of some research assistance, in order to take pressure off me [74 in June and tiring] and hopefully to further improve the blog, has made a good start. To contribute, only if you can (!) go to: Talking-up Scotland – a Politics crowdfunding project in Ayr by Professor John Robertson By Professor John Robertson OBA, former Faculty Research Ethics Chair, UWS Today, NHS England’s performance data come in and the omens, judging by the media attention, are bad. I’ll do a direct comparison later. For the moment, a reminder of the numerous sets … Continue reading England’s NHS underperformance day, bed-blocking, community care and road deaths set BBC Scotland an impossible task to match the misery – first the NHS

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Worried about your child at University? Everywhere across the UK is more dangerous, often much more so, than anywhere in Scotland, including Oxford and Cambridge

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The Talking-up Scotland fund raiser primarily to enable the recruitment of some research assistance, in order to take pressure off me [74 in June and tiring] and hopefully to further improve the blog, has made a good start. To contribute, only if you can (!) go to: Talking-up Scotland – a Politics crowdfunding project in Ayr by Professor John Robertson By Professor John Robertson OBA, former Faculty Research Ethics Chair, UWS I did this years ago and have been meaning to do it again. From the Complete University Guide – How safe is your city? published in March 2024, the above table, shows … Continue reading Worried about your child at University? Everywhere across the UK is more dangerous, often much more so, than anywhere in Scotland, including Oxford and Cambridge

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Massive recent research study finds significantly higher risks for ALL cancers, especially among the under-5s, in those living less than 20 miles from nuclear power stations to show Scottish Labour’s support for them as a betrayal

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By Professor John Robertson OBA, former Faculty Research Ethics Chair, UWS Prompted by current controversy over the new Australian government’s plans for new nuclear power stations and warnings from doctors there of the huge health risks, I’ve had a look at the main research study being used by critics – Health Effects of Occupational and Environmental Exposures to Nuclear Power Plants: A Meta-Analysis and Meta-Regression in Current Environmental Health Reports, 18 June 2024. Using 30km (18m) as as the defined distance for ‘local residency’, the researchers found: We identified 47 studies, 13 with worker and 34 with resident samples, covering 175 nuclear power … Continue reading Massive recent research study finds significantly higher risks for ALL cancers, especially among the under-5s, in those living less than 20 miles from nuclear power stations to show Scottish Labour’s support for them as a betrayal

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Not one anti-semitic violent attack recorded in Scotland in 2024 and only one misogynistic leaflet in ‘Northern Scotland’ is mentioned in report

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The Talking-up Scotland fund raiser primarily to enable the recruitment of some research assistance, in order to take pressure off me [74 in June and tiring] and hopefully to further improve the blog, has made a good start. To contribute, only if you can (!) go to: Talking-up Scotland – a Politics crowdfunding project in Ayr by Professor John Robertson By Professor John Robertson OBA, former Faculty Research Ethics Chair, UWS The report on anti-semitic attacks in the UK in 2024, from the CST, published today has prompted some excited media coverage but not, yet, in Scotland. Watch out for the Herald to … Continue reading Not one anti-semitic violent attack recorded in Scotland in 2024 and only one misogynistic leaflet in ‘Northern Scotland’ is mentioned in report

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‘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, former Faculty Research Ethics Chair, UWS The role of physician associates [PA] is at the centre of controversy this week as the BMA sues the GMC over how they are to be described. What are PAs? Physician associates (PAs) are medically trained [but not full MD training], generalist healthcare professionals who work with doctors in multidisciplinary teams to provide medical care. PAs are dependent practitioners working with a dedicated supervisor but can also work independently on specific tasks.1 Scotland’s media seem disinterested, … Continue reading ‘Controversial’ physician associates more than twice as common in NHS England than in NHS Scotland

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Here are the most important NHS pandemic recovery figures they’re hiding from you

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The Talking-up Scotland fund raiser primarily to enable the recruitment of some research assistance, in order to take pressure off me [74 in June and tiring] and hopefully to further improve the blog, has made a good start. To contribute, only if you can (!) go to: Talking-up Scotland – a Politics crowdfunding project in Ayr by Professor John Robertson By Professor John Robertson OBA, former Faculty Research Ethics Chair, UWS It’s constant, I’m sure you know, this kind of thing with Sarwar, Baillie and others frothing over selective figures: From Hospital Standardised Mortality Ratios October 2023 to September 2024 published today, clear evidence of an … Continue reading Here are the most important NHS pandemic recovery figures they’re hiding from you

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Latest hospital mortality figures reveal that Scotland does have a one-tier health service unlike the one in that other place

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The Talking-up Scotland fund raiser primarily to enable the recruitment of some research assistance, in order to take pressure off me [74 in June and tiring] and hopefully to further improve the blog, has made a good start. To contribute, only if you can (!) go to: Talking-up Scotland – a Politics crowdfunding project in Ayr by Professor John Robertson By Professor John Robertson OBA, former Faculty Research Ethics Chair, UWS From Hospital Standardised Mortality Ratios October 2023 to September 2024 published today: The above funnel plot shows that all of Scotland’s hospitals had the level of mortality previously predicted in earlier data … Continue reading Latest hospital mortality figures reveal that Scotland does have a one-tier health service unlike the one in that other place

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Scotland’s private sector economy surges in UK league but the news ‘falls of the BBC News editor’s table’

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The Talking-up Scotland fund raiser primarily to enable the recruitment of some research assistance, in order to take pressure off me [74 in June and tiring] and hopefully to further improve the blog, has made a good start. To contribute, only if you can (!) go to: Talking-up Scotland – a Politics crowdfunding project in Ayr by Professor John Robertson By Professor John Robertson OBA, former Faculty Research Ethics Chair, UWSIn the Herald today, by their only decent journalist, Ian McConnell: Scotland last month surged up the league table of UK nations and regions in terms of the performance of its private sector … Continue reading Scotland’s private sector economy surges in UK league but the news ‘falls of the BBC News editor’s table’

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TWICE as many wait over 8 hours in NHS Wales A&E departments but Holyrood Mag finds a way to hide that fact and others favourable to NHS Scotland as well as to fake their figures

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stewartb An article about NHS Scotland in Holyrood Magazine today has a very odd statistic. Am I missing something? See: Holyrood Magazine (February10, , 2025) Bed Bound: The chronic problem of delayed discharges is tying up resources across the NHS. Here is the text with the problematic stat (the named reference is to the author of a recent IFS report): ‘The honest answer is that it’s probably too early to tell, although Phillips says there are some signs of recovery in England’s NHS based on available data. Meanwhile, figures published last week showed more than 180,000 patients waited more than eight hours … Continue reading TWICE as many wait over 8 hours in NHS Wales A&E departments but Holyrood Mag finds a way to hide that fact and others favourable to NHS Scotland as well as to fake their figures

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Classic media bias to harm tourism and morale as CalMac non-weather-related ferry cancellations actually FALL by 20% in the last year and reliability hits nearly 97%

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The Talking-up Scotland fund raiser primarily to enable the recruitment of some research assistance, in order to take pressure off me [74 in June and tiring] and hopefully to further improve the blog, has made a good start. To contribute, only if you can (!) go to: Talking-up Scotland – a Politics crowdfunding project in Ayr by Professor John Robertson By Professor John Robertson OBA, former Faculty Research Ethics Chair, UWS The Daily Mail today has Islanders ‘abandoned’ by the SNP as cancellations due to ferry repairs soar by a staggering 2,000pc in 13 years and other rags, including the Herald, are in … Continue reading Classic media bias to harm tourism and morale as CalMac non-weather-related ferry cancellations actually FALL by 20% in the last year and reliability hits nearly 97%