LUDO THIERRY:
Fantastic life-saving type good news from NHS Scotland is ignored by ‘Scottish’ msm and carried only on the news.gov.scot site: Link and snippets below:
https://news.gov.scot/news/more-men-taking-part-in-bowel-screening-programme
First annual statistics show success of new home test.
The number of men being tested for bowel cancer is at its highest ever level in Scotland.
In November 2017 Scotland became the first part of the UK to introduce a simpler home screening test for bowel cancer.
Statistics for the first full year of the new home test’s use show 61.6% of men returned the test between November 2017 to October 2018 – compared to
52.3% using the old test in the same period the year before.
Importantly, there has also been an increase in testing by those in the most deprived areas – up from 41.7% to 51.7%. Uptake amongst those who had never participated before has also increased significantly from 7.8% to 18.9%.
Overall the combined number of men and women doing the new, easier bowel screening test increased from 55% to 64%.
The new Faecal Immunochemical Test (FIT) test requires the collection of just one bowel motion sample. It replaced the Faecal Occult Blood Test (FOBT), which required people to return three samples over a 10-day period.
Background: Scottish Bowel Screening statistics
Healthcare Improvement Scotland has set a standard of 60% for Bowel Screening participation.
In Scotland men and women aged 50 to 74 are invited every two years to take part in bowel screening.
The Scottish Government introduced FIT in November 2017 to replace the FOBT.
£5 million of funding from the Scottish Government’s £100 million Cancer Strategy is being invested in the national cancer screening programmes, including bowel, to encourage those who are eligible to take up their invite. This funding is targeted towards increasing participation in areas of deprivation and other areas where uptake is lowest.
RECORD FIGURES all round – In any normal country this type of good news would be front page to try and encourage further progress and promote other similar ‘test’ programmes. In Scotland’s media (within the UK) – it’s just as if it never happened.
Talking-up Scotland 
A headline, inspired by your last sentence;
BBC, through inactivity encourages the development of bowel cancer in Scots!
Complete with triumphal brass fanfare and big bongs.
To quote a phrase from someone else, “we have to learn to forgive our enemies, just don’t forget the names of the bastards.”
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If we keep making these bricks, these bricks of service and citizen betterment, then maybe we will build an invisible wall in Scotland against the waves of lies from Westminster.
Maybe we will need a bigger Country for of new Scots immigrants.
Maybe not for my lifetime.
I just hope
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I do the test it’s easy and what a great feeling when it comes back top marks, helps remind me to keep eating a healthy diet
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All very well but there was a much ‘bigger story’ to lead that the new Edin Childrens hospital will cost a few £m’s more to complete. All part of the overall strategy to keep us all in our place and not to get too optimistic about our future.
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