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 Scotsman today, front page claim – A&E system ‘in perpetual crisis’ as target missed again, is based on a statistically meaningless, one week variation, of only 0.4%, in a winter week of ice and snow, and fails to look at more meaningful monthly trends over years. Also, is any A&E system, in the world, hitting targets, post pandemic? Next post! From A&E Attendances and Emergency Admissions 2025-26, 59.6% were treated in England’s Type 1 A&E departments, within 4 … Continue reading As Scotsman’s unnamed ‘medical professionals’ dream up another NHS crisis how proper monthly statistics reveal NHS Scotland’s A&E is improving and how nearly THREE times as many emergency patients per capita wait 12 hours or more in NHS England than in NHS Scotland

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 BBC UK is headlining the above serious problem, crisis, in the funding of local pharmacies, often a lifeline service in some communities. BBC Scotland, as we’ll see below, cannot just mirror this story but had to find something, anything: BBC England, Wales and Northern Ireland do not have this story at all. It’s by BBC Scotland’s Glasgow and West reporter, Jonathan Geddes. Look how it opens: Supplies of prescription-strength co-codamol will be limited until the summer, the Scottish … Continue reading Using the ‘Scotland’s’ co-codamol shortage to conceal how for three years now, England’s pharmacists ‘look to Scotland’ for flexible and sustainable solutions

Please Support Talking-up Scotland at: https://www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/support-talking-up-scotlandClick on the above. This is the second attempt by the Herald, based on unreliable statistical methods by the Daily Record (No surprise there) to misrepresent the level of ‘corridor care‘ in Scotland’s hospitals. Explicit figures are not published anywhere but there’s a good proxy for corridor care and that’s 12 hour waits in A&E. By definition if you’re waiting 12 hours after triage assessment and maybe some treatment before getting a bed, that is ‘corridor care.’ A fuller AI rationale for the use of 12 hour waits, based heavily on the views of the Royal College … Continue reading As Herald today misleads with unreliable methods on ‘corridor care’ figures, reliable transparent A&E figures suggest it is reducing