Health - UK Column News - 21st November 2022

Clip: Health Secretary Steve Barclay challenged on the BBC on soaring Accident & Emergency waiting time
- Mike Robinson’s weekly look at all-cause mortality data from the ONS
- Telegraph: True impact of Covid on cancer patients revealed as excess deaths soar—not looking at the jabs
- On-screen ONS graphs indicate that cancer is not a significant factor in excess mortality after all
- Health Feedback: What can explain the excess mortality in the U.S. and Europe in 2022?—few journalists prepared to address the causes, even as they as the question
- BBC exclusive: NHS chiefs in Scotland discuss having wealthy pay for treatment
- Tweet by Edinburgh minister Humza Yousaf: SNP-led ScotGovt has never contemplated charging anyone, regardless of wealth, for treatment on NHS, never will
- David Scott commentary: The Scottish Government is the least transparent organisation outside North Korea; if this turns out to be false, Yousaf will not be resigning
- Update on Scottish residential school
- Dundee Courier: Women’s ordeal at Fornethy House revealed in latest abuse allegations
- David Scott commentary: The Courier has done some fine journalism exposing this horror
- David shows a 1961 report and a 1972 report by the Glasgow Corporation (city council), which operated Fornethy House as a girls’ residence
- It is evident from these that there are several more properties dotted around Scotland which could have seen similar abuse of boys and girls
- Request for your experiences in such Scottish temporary-stay residential schools: david@ukcolumn.org
- Recommended long read—Courier: Abused as children while on holiday in Angus, now these women want justice
Sources: https://www.ukcolumn.org/video/uk-column-news-21st-november-2022