Dear All
Scotland’s unpopular Deputy First Minister
Nicola Sturgeon spent years as an angry wee Nat, then she suddenly became all
caring and sharing.
Being a crony of Salmond she was gifted the
Health brief by Salmond.
Health was supposed to be the SNP’s
flagship policy and was spun by the SNP as a startling success.
Time for a quote by Alex Salmond:
“my problem is that I have too many
talented people and not enough Cabinet positions”.
Does anyone thing that statement stands up
now?
We are slowly finding out that Nicola
Sturgeon wasn’t the “superstar” that was portrayed by the SNP as getting things
done in Health, a few areas and targets were concentrated on but the big
picture escaped her.
We now have SNP ministers denying that
Scotland’s A&E had been in crisis for nine months after health
professionals warned them about utter chaos on the wards.
As is the old and too familiar story when
it comes to Deputy First Minister Nicola Sturgeon, she was given a stark
warning by the College of Emergency Medicine last April and was less than a
superstar in getting things fixed.
The vast majority of accident and emergency
departments were found to be unsafe for patients.
Where was Nicola?
The woman who was so keen to take a
Minister’s salary, was she off doing one of her little vanity projects at the expense
of patient safety?
The College of Emergency Medicine survey of
clinical leads at all 24 A&E departments found 15 believed their department
was unsafe on a weekly basis.
If that came across Nicola Sturgeon’s desk
it should have sent the alarm bells ringing non-stop.
Another six said their unit was unsafe
monthly because of a drastic shortage of ward beds.
The situation only came to light because of
a high-profile campaign conducted by the Daily Record.
Then and only then did Nicola Sturgeon’s
successor Alex Neil finally crack and man up to admit to the crisis.
Scottish Labour health spokesman Neil
Findlay has demanded an inquiry by Holyrood’s health committee into the
scandal.
He said:
“Why did it take almost a year for the SNP
to acknowledge and act upon what the experts on the ground had told them?
He added:
“Why did Nicola Sturgeon not fix the
problem when she was in charge?”
Findlay also said:
“Why did Alex Neil wait until newspapers
were telling him that our hospitals were at breaking point before he was
dragged into action?”
Was there a cover up because this related
to when Nicola Sturgeon was in charge of health?
Lib Dem health spokesman Jim Hume said:
“Rather than take steps to save countless
patients from long waits and the increased risk of bed sores, the Scottish
Government buried the report and pretended all was well.”
Tory health spokesman Jackson Carlaw said:
“There is mounting evidence that what
Nicola Sturgeon left behind in the health brief was nothing short of chaotic.
This is another story of warnings ignored – and patients paid the price.”
The SNP parachuted Scotland’s unpopular
Deputy First Minister Nicola Sturgeon out of Health before the scandals broke
so as to present her as a ‘clean skin’.
But the truth is coming slowly but surely
to the surface, Nicola Sturgeon, the ‘face of independence’ was asleep at the
helm.
Dozens of NHS staff and patients started to
ring the Record to lift the lid on the Sturgeon crisis.
Dr Jason Long, chairman of the Scottish
board of the College of Emergency Medicine, confirmed the Scottish Government
had been warned about chaos in A&E during Nicola Sturgeon’s stint as Health
Minister, well before the winter.
He said:
“It was exactly the sort of thing we said
was going to happen.”
It seems that Nicola Sturgeon isn’t the ‘go
to’ person when the shit hits the fan regarding patient safety.
Nicola Sturgeon’s current patient is the
Yes Scotland Campaign, the vitals are low, they aren’t getting enough oxygen
and diagnosis is that there is terminal decline.
So far the way Nicola Sturgeon has handled
that project we aren’t expecting the ‘birth of nation’ but rather the delivery
of a stinking corpse!
Yours sincerely
George Laird
The Campaign for Human Rights at Glasgow
University
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