Thousands of patients are being “deliberately hidden” from accident-and-emergency (A&E) figures, a whistleblower has warned, amid claims the Scottish Government is trying to “cover-up the true scale of the humanitarian crisis in our NHS”.
View email online | | | | | | | | | Nov 8, 2022 | | | | | | | | Good morning Voornaam, And welcome to your Tuesday news update from The Scotsman, delivering all the biggest and best Scottish news stories of the day right to your inbox. Five Big Stories - Thousands of patients 'deliberately hidden' from A&E stats - Work set to start on new 'Gasholder Park' waterfront attraction - COP27: Has payback time for climate destruction finally come? - Households start to receive £324 cost-of-living payments into bank accounts - Wanted: New owners for campsite on Scottish holiday island Thanks for reading, and be sure to catch plenty more stories and features below. Best wishes and have a great day, Joshua King | |
| | | | | | | Thousands of patients 'deliberately hidden' from Scottish Government's A&E stats | | | | | | | | Thousands of patients are being “deliberately hidden” from accident-and-emergency (A&E) figures, a whistleblower has warned, amid claims the Scottish Government is trying to “cover-up the true scale of the humanitarian crisis in our NHS”. | | | | | |
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Tenders open for unique Hebridean longhouse on Jura: builders from the mainland offered once-in-a-lifetime job | | | A one-of-a-kind building contract to create a heritage home on an island off the west coast is up for grabs: could your firm make this family’s retirement dream come true?
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| | | | | | | | | | | | | Readers' Letters: Is Nicola Sturgeon saying Scotland doesn’t need her? | | | | When a crisis hits at Westminster the Prime Minister would abandon his or her mission, if abroad, and return to deal with it. Nicola Sturgeon likes to emphasise difference, hence when a crisis hits Holyrood, she goes abroad at the most critical time. |
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Work set to start on new Edinburgh 'Gasholder Park' waterfront attraction and events arena | | | | Work is set to get underway on a £19 million project to transform one of Edinburgh’s most prominent industrial landmarks into a waterfront attraction and events arena at the heart of a new “coastal town”. |
| | | | | | | | | Households start to receive £324 cost-of-living payments into bank accounts | | | | Millions of people on low incomes will start to receive payments of £324 into their bank accounts from Tuesday as part of the Government’s cost-of-living support, with 689,000 Scots estimated to benefit from the scheme. |
| | | | | | | | | COP27: Has payback time for climate destruction caused by world’s richest nations finally come? | | | | History was written last year in Glasgow during COP26, when First Minister Nicola Sturgeon announced Scotland would provide cash to developing countries for ‘loss and damage’ wrought by climate change on developing countries, becoming the first developed nation to make such a move. |
| | | | | | | | | Unionists must not repeat the mistakes of the 2014 independence referendum if there's a second one – John McLellan | | | | If you want to know about referendum outcomes, Matt Qvartrup is your man. To an extent he is the only man, because the Coventry University professor of political science and international relations has pretty much got the field to himself, as I discovered in 2012. |
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