"See, never mind the improving trends in consumption. Never mind the fact that the minimum pricing scheme was designed to reduce all problem drinking and not really expected to solve alcoholism. We’re telling you that Scotland is still a place of drunks and that you needn’t get above yourselves. And, never mind that alcohol-related stays in hospital continue to fall as they have done since the early days of this ‘SNP Government’."
https://thoughtcontrolscotland.com

"NHS England has largely given up and across the globe health targets are regarded quite differently but in Scotland they remain highly politicised and simplistic, even moronic. Despite well-known problems with target-setting including both failure to improve services and even a tendency to worsen them (below), the opposition parties and their lackeys in the MSM (above) leap gleefully, as they have done today, on ‘missed targets’, demanding improvements in the name of the people and either directly or by implication, condemning the ‘SNP Government.’ Where targets are hit or even surpassed, as with IVF, drug and alcohol treatment, they are ignored. Where they are approached despite pressure from soaring demand, as in A&E and in cancer treatment, it is never enough for commentators."
https://thoughtcontrolscotland.com

"There are three reasons why the NHS is in trouble. They are:
1. The internal market, which creates massive costs and enormous inefficiencies.
2. A lack of funding.
3. Brexit, which has harmed recruitment.
None of these has been corrected. The situation is getting worse by government choice."
https://www.taxresearch.org.uk

The Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents (RoSPA) has given direct credit to Scottish Government initiatives in reducing deaths and serious injuries. Sounds like a big news story.

Meanwhile here is Reporting Scotland’s preferred approach to falling deaths and injuries: "Drivers targetted in Scotland as 18 die in April crashes"
https://thoughtcontrolscotland.com