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Dr Saleyha Ahsan, the star of BBC’s investigative medical series Trust Me, I’m a Doctor, has told the Kirkcaldy Courier on the 4th March that she had to move to Wales to get away from Westminster Health Secretary, Jeremy Hunt.
She praised the leadership of NHS Scotland and said there was a different culture and mentality in the Scottish system. She wants to work here because:
- Scotland, she said, has a far more innovative and collaborative approach to healthcare.
- Our hospitals use a digital early-warning systems and critically acclaimed work to screen for frailty when patients are admitted.
- There is collaboration between different sections of the NHS here, whereas it’s more disjointed in England with people working in isolation.
- There are morning huddles so people in A&E and the rest of the hospital can look at managing beds and discharging people so the staff in A&E have beds to put patients into.
- It’s a whole hospital approach.
I’ve been banging away for years now revealing hard evidence of the better performance of NHS Scotland. To see them all go to ‘Talking-up Scotland’ and just search for NHS. There are dozens.
Here are the most recent (ctrl click to open them) and one of the most comprehensive if a little dated now:
Talking-up Scotland 
There is a difference between 4million patients and 50 million. England is besieged by people coming from other countries as well. Don’t take my word for it come on down and take a look in any medium size cities or towns and check out the emergency outpatients departments. It’s a different planet……
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Hi Clive, thanks for your comment. What about her points:
Scotland, she said, has a far more innovative and collaborative approach to healthcare.
Our hospitals use a digital early-warning systems and critically acclaimed work to screen for frailty when patients are admitted.
There is collaboration between different sections of the NHS here, whereas it’s more disjointed in England with people working in isolation.
There are morning huddles so people in A&E and the rest of the hospital can look at managing beds and discharging people so the staff in A&E have beds to put patients into.
It’s a whole hospital approach.
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When you’ve chased away the Polish plumbers and Hungarian fruit pickers, who will be blamed? UK has a failing economy and a corrupt political system.
Scots, Irish..?
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Few Scots in leading UK political roles now so hopefully limited possibilities for blame. Mind you Liam Fox is still in there giving us a bad name.
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Liam at his thickest: http://www.thecanary.co/2017/03/07/conservative-cabinet-minister-liam-fox-now-regrets-sending-ignorant-tweet-video/
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NHS England is on a different planet because it’s being run by a minister to whom the concept of maintaining it in public hands is Alien. Staff moral in NHS England is rock bottom. Because of the Health Minister and his party policy of Privatisation. This requires underfunding the service running it into the ground then handing it over to private companies. Politicians make choices, England’s current politicians have chosen to underfund NHS England and social care, and to renew Trident, plus maintain military spending at around 2%.
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Yes, and: ‘Selling off NHS for profit’: Full list of MPs with links to private healthcare firms at: http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/selling-nhs-profit-full-list-4646154
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Hi Clive, easy answer, there is more people therefore it needs more investment, and TMAY bangs on about austerity, but they are spending millions and millions on the HS2, Buck House and the Palace of Westminster to name just a few!
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And those bloody aircraft carriers you can’t use for defence.
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‘easy answer’?? Its an inane statement. Scotland delivers a superior service DESPITE having a smaller, scattered population and therefore greater cost per intervention away from the population centres.
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