Guest TPAFKATS Posted July 11, 2015 Report Share Posted July 11, 2015 A few short weeks ago I reported on here that Police Scotland was on it's knees buckling under the pressure of a number of changes and limitations that had been forced on it by a Scottish Government that appears to be intent on destroying the service. Yesterday Police Scotland Chief Constable Sir Stephen House apologised for the organisations failure to respond to reports that a car had left the road at Stirling Services on the M9 last Sunday. Detailing what went wrong he said that an experienced police officer who was working in the civilian call centre had failed to input the details into either of the police systems. The devastating consequence of this was that Laura Bell was left critically injured in a car for THREE DAYS. Why was an experienced police officer working in a civilian call centre? Well the Scottish Government decided some time ago that it would be prudent to close a number of police call centres around the country. As each one of these call centres closed staff were offered the opportunity of redundancy or the opportunity to transfer to an alternative call centre - for example staff in Inverness were offered similar posts in Bilston in Midlothian. Most staff took redundancy which obviously drained the staffing budget and when Police Scotland went back to the Scottish Government for funding to recruit new staff to replace those leaving they were refused and a recruitment moratorium was put in place for 14 months. Of course this then had a knock on effect with response times to 999 calls reaching critical level so to combat this Police Officers were taken off the beat and deployed into the call centres to take phone calls instead. In January 2015 the blocks on recruitment were lifted and since then Police Scotland has embarked on a huge recruitment campaign to find new staff to fill all the vacancies in the call centres. I'm told last month an open day at Motherwell, Helen Street and Bilston attracted some 1,500 applicants who all need to be screened, interviewed and then trained to work in the post. It sounds impressive but when you realise that this is against a backdrop of 1,500 staff members having lost their jobs over the last two years you can see it's still no more than a "pig in a poke". No doubt the usual SNP apologists will be on here with their usual slanderous insults trying to deflect from the failings in a totally devolved service by their party leaders. Perhaps one of those apologists in particular should consider carefully what he posts in response especially given the news over the last week that 18 leukaemia patients had to be moved from the SNP showcase hospital in Govan back to the Beatsons because of problems with dust in the air conditioning systems due to the hospital trying to operate whilst construction work continues both inside and outside of the hospital. Like the old Rangers with Ticketus, the SNP borrowed against future revenue to build a bridge over the River Forth which was nothing short of a vanity project and they've done so whilst our essential devolved services struggle with Wishaw General having just one doctor covering four emergency wards and A&E last Friday and Saturday night. Lets vote these f**king chancers right out of Holyrood on the 5th of May. f**k off you trolling c**t Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest TPAFKATS Posted July 11, 2015 Report Share Posted July 11, 2015 I recall a few years ago a police officer died after a crash on m8 when returning home after her shift. IIRC a certain Bill Lees took the same approach that 'oaksoft' is taking now. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
salmonbuddie Posted July 11, 2015 Report Share Posted July 11, 2015 And your point is? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
proudtobeabuddy Posted July 11, 2015 Report Share Posted July 11, 2015 Blah blah blah Dickson.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pod Posted July 12, 2015 Report Share Posted July 12, 2015 The Chief Constable is reported in today's papers as saying that the call was received but not entered into the electronic system which would have triggered a response. Perhaps we should blame it on the widespread use of IT. Incompetent Twats. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stuart Dickson Posted July 12, 2015 Author Report Share Posted July 12, 2015 Another "I told you so" story in the papers this morning. NHS Lanarkshire published shocking figures showing hundreds of people visiting A&E were left waiting up to 12 hours to be seen by a doctor. Yet remarkably this is only the THIRD worst NHS performance in Scotland. Also revealed in the report was that NHS Scotland is failing to hit Scottish Government set targets in every single area. The legacy of our Nationalist government is the utter failure of our NHS, our police service, our education services and our ambulance service. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stuart Dickson Posted July 12, 2015 Author Report Share Posted July 12, 2015 Oh and on the subject of It in Scotland's public services the police 999 service computer systems had been down for 36 hours by lunchtime yesterday. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bud the Baker Posted July 12, 2015 Report Share Posted July 12, 2015 The shame is there's some good points in the original post which are somewhat nullified by gloating style in which they are presented. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest TPAFKATS Posted July 12, 2015 Report Share Posted July 12, 2015 Another "I told you so" story in the papers this morning. NHS Lanarkshire published shocking figures showing hundreds of people visiting A&E were left waiting up to 12 hours to be seen by a doctor. Yet remarkably this is only the THIRD worst NHS performance in Scotland. Also revealed in the report was that NHS Scotland is failing to hit Scottish Government set targets in every single area. The legacy of our Nationalist government is the utter failure of our NHS, our police service, our education services and our ambulance service. Mibees you should start a thread about these 'failures' instead of using a thread you started where you appear to wallow in the tragedy of 2 people dying.Alternatively, just f**k off you trolling c**t. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stuart Dickson Posted July 12, 2015 Author Report Share Posted July 12, 2015 Didn't you also tell us that you stayed in South Lanarkshire, when you didn't. Didn't you also tell us that someone was a civil servant, when they weren't. Didn't you also tell us you read in a newspaper that oil was at a price, when there was no such article. Didn't you also tell us that we would be deficit free by 2015, 2017, 2018 & 2019. When you going to revise that now the Chancellor has now said it could be 2020 at the earliest. Who is it that has underfunded the Scottish Government and cutting back for even longer contrary to what they said only a few months ago? What a really pathetic response from a Nationalist to fatal failings within their Scottish government. The attempt this afternoon by Matheson to sweep this all away as a simple call handling error is disgusting and disrespectful. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TopCat Posted July 12, 2015 Report Share Posted July 12, 2015 Hard to see how Stephen House can survive this. He should be resigning in the morning. Michael Matheson's position must also be under huge scrutiny. It's one of the most basic requirements of a state, to provide emergency help to those in need when called upon. As a direct result of failures to provide this most basic of services, at least one person has died. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zurich_allan Posted July 12, 2015 Report Share Posted July 12, 2015 Hard to see how Stephen House can survive this. He should be resigning in the morning. Michael Matheson's position must also be under huge scrutiny. It's one of the most basic requirements of a state, to provide emergency help to those in need when called upon. As a direct result of failures to provide this most basic of services, at least one person has died. Stephen House has been saying for the past few months that he's almost certainly going to step down when his contract ends next year, so no doubt there is work already going on in the background with the likely candidates to replace him. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lord Pityme Posted July 12, 2015 Report Share Posted July 12, 2015 Another "I told you so" story in the papers this morning. NHS Lanarkshire published shocking figures showing hundreds of people visiting A&E were left waiting up to 12 hours to be seen by a doctor. Yet remarkably this is only the THIRD worst NHS performance in Scotland. Also revealed in the report was that NHS Scotland is failing to hit Scottish Government set targets in every single area. The legacy of our Nationalist government is the utter failure of our NHS, our police service, our education services and our ambulance service. Yeah... If only the UK government didnt dictate evrything, and wasnt seeking to marginalise democratically elected scottish MP's.... But then thatsbthe tories for you, always trying to blame someone else for their f**k ups! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stuart Dickson Posted July 13, 2015 Author Report Share Posted July 13, 2015 Hard to see how Stephen House can survive this. He should be resigning in the morning. Michael Matheson's position must also be under huge scrutiny. It's one of the most basic requirements of a state, to provide emergency help to those in need when called upon. As a direct result of failures to provide this most basic of services, at least one person has died. Matheson has demanded a review of call handling procedures. It's hard to see what will be found wrong. A call comes in, the civilian answers it's logs it on the two computer systems, grades it, passes it. It gets checked and then police are dispatched. It's worked for decades. What has gone wrong is they've put police officers into a call centre to cover staffing shortfalls, without any training and an officer has failed to follow procedure. The review should be focusing on why the service is so short staffed and why what used to be an 8 week training programme for civilian recruits is now being delivered in 3 days. The reason it won't is because Matheson knows that review would implicate the SNP and it's calamitous policies completely. As for resignations perhaps the fact the officer concerned has not been suspended or disciplined yet speaks volumes. Unison warned of a catastrophe waiting to happen, and staff are angry enough to speak out. I also understand that the Yuill family know enough to make sure this isn't swept under the carpet. House has been a political patsy for the whole police Scotland shambles. He will step down but he is most definitely not to blame Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stuart Dickson Posted July 13, 2015 Author Report Share Posted July 13, 2015 (edited) I don't doubt they've sacrificed time spent looking after these key areas in favour of banging on about independence, and it's now showing. Hopefully the electorate holds them to account over their record next May, instead of just voting blindly for SNP cos independence. They are still doing it too TC. This mornings news - in the light of all the shit going on as Scotlands Devolved Emergency Services are on their knees - Nicola Sturgeon has attempted to re-ignite rows over English Votes For English Laws. Now to put this massive attempt at deflecting news coverage away from the criticism of her party into context - during the whole of the last Westminster Parliament SNP MP's were under strict instruction to abstain on every single vote on matters that concerned only England. Indeed SNP MP's during the last Westminster Parliament subsequently had some of the worst attendance records as a result. It really is time Scots stopped allowing themselves to be conned by one of the most inept Political Parties our country has ever seen and booted them into touch with the kind of venom their woeful record in government deserves. Edited July 13, 2015 by Stuart Dickson Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stuart Dickson Posted July 14, 2015 Author Report Share Posted July 14, 2015 (edited) You accusing others of deflection? How is it you say it again? That's right - "Oh, the irony". Why do you want babies to die? Where is the letter from your lawyer? Where's the oil price you quoted? Etc ... Is not the point of a political party to get elected? They don't seem to be inept at all in that case. You've now got your "SNP bad" inspired erection for the day, off you jerk. Irony? To be honest I think your post is full of it given the government you voted for is responsible for policy decisions that have directly led to the death of a female on the M9; the premature closure of hospitals throughout Glasgow replacing it with a construction site hospital where critical care air quality can't be guaranteed and where A&E is described by staff as being reminiscent of war zones; and whose policies have led to record low levels of morale being reported in the police force, amongst paramedics, GP surgeries, nurses, and our Fire Service.The only wankers around here are the Natsis attempting to defend the indefensible Edited July 14, 2015 by Stuart Dickson Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
faraway saint Posted July 14, 2015 Report Share Posted July 14, 2015 Wow, this threads going well........................ FFS get a room. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stuart Dickson Posted July 14, 2015 Author Report Share Posted July 14, 2015 No doubt the resident Nazi will suggest a shower cubicle. It appears you have done..... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stuart Dickson Posted July 15, 2015 Author Report Share Posted July 15, 2015 Are you still avoiding answering questions regarding your previous post about babies dying for your political beliefs? You could always do what you normally do when you post, lie. You and your boyfriends attempts to embarrass me might actually have had some weight if it wasn't for the fact that the government you voted for, the one you both advocate for and whose record you both defend wasn't so busy killing people and destroying lives for real. Seriously only 50% of stroke patients in NHS Lothian and NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde receiving appropriate treatment is a shameful record. Every single emergency service in Scotland is under extreme pressure because of SNP policy. The flagship hospital the SNP built is shipping patients because the poor air quality could kill them, that's if the survive the worst performing "warzone" A&E in the country. And in our schools we have a generation of kids who will forever wonder if the SQAs inability to set fair questions has cost them their whole future, or if it was simply the fact that the SNP don't sack shite teachers, running class sizes bigger than when the SNP came to power pledging to reduce class sizes. The SNP is only in charge of devolved areas in Scotland yet they've managed to f**k up every single area from Police Scotland to CalMac and yet rather than fix it's failings their only goal yesterday was to deflect attention by threatening to vote in an English matter that didn't affect Scotland Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
smcc Posted July 15, 2015 Report Share Posted July 15, 2015 (edited) You and your boyfriends attempts to embarrass me might actually have had some weight if it wasn't for the fact that the government you voted for, the one you both advocate for and whose record you both defend wasn't so busy killing people and destroying lives for real. Seriously only 50% of stroke patients in NHS Lothian and NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde receiving appropriate treatment is a shameful record. Every single emergency service in Scotland is under extreme pressure because of SNP policy. The flagship hospital the SNP built is shipping patients because the poor air quality could kill them, that's if the survive the worst performing "warzone" A&E in the country. And in our schools we have a generation of kids who will forever wonder if the SQAs inability to set fair questions has cost them their whole future, or if it was simply the fact that the SNP don't sack shite teachers, running class sizes bigger than when the SNP came to power pledging to reduce class sizes. The SNP is only in charge of devolved areas in Scotland yet they've managed to f**k up every single area from Police Scotland to CalMac and yet rather than fix it's failings their only goal yesterday was to deflect attention by threatening to vote in an English matter that didn't affect Scotland Stewart, your constant carping about the SNP has irritated all and sundry for the past year or two but I do now begin to worry about your obsession with this. According to you Scotland is going from bad to worse but, if you were to raise your horizon and have a look south of the border you would see that NHS England is going to hell in a handcart, long queues of ambulances are a regular feature outside A&E departments with patients often waiting hours to get into the A&E department before being assessed, and it is not unusual for patients to have to wait several weeks for a routine GP appointment. David Cameron stated before the 2010 general election that there would be no top down reorganisation of NHS England but proceeded to reorganise the NHS from the top down at a cost of many billions of pounds, against the advice of people with a much greater knowledge of the workings of the NHS. You seem totally unable to recognise that the vast majority of actions taken by the present Conservative government and its predecessor coalition government were and are based on ideology alone. It is about time that you took your head out of your a**e and looked at the real world! Edited July 15, 2015 by smcc Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bluto Posted July 15, 2015 Report Share Posted July 15, 2015 I have noticed you have made a number of comments regarding homosexualality. I hope if any of your sons are gay you don't ever hold it against them. Injudicious choice of words. With that final phrase.... ...you're begging for it.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
salmonbuddie Posted July 15, 2015 Report Share Posted July 15, 2015 Stewart, your constant carping about the SNP has irritated all and sundry for the past year or two but I do now begin to worry about your obsession with this. According to you Scotland is going from bad to worse but, if you were to raise your horizon and have a look south of the border you would see that NHS England is going to hell in a handcart, long queues of ambulances are a regular feature outside A&E departments with patients often waiting hours to get into the A&E department before being assessed, and it is not unusual for patients to have to wait several weeks for a routine GP appointment. David Cameron stated before the 2010 general election that there would be no top down reorganisation of NHS England but proceeded to reorganise the NHS from the top down at a cost of many billions of pounds, against the advice of people with a much greater knowledge of the workings of the NHS. I blame the SNP, if they didn't vote on matters only affecting England and Wales then none of this would have happened. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
smcc Posted July 15, 2015 Report Share Posted July 15, 2015 I blame the SNP, if they didn't vote on matters only affecting England and Wales then none of this would have happened. Are you SDs alter ego? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
salmonbuddie Posted July 15, 2015 Report Share Posted July 15, 2015 Are you SDs alter ego? I don't mind a bit of fun but that's too far. Outside. Now. Or I'll throw this DVD player at you. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stuart Dickson Posted July 16, 2015 Author Report Share Posted July 16, 2015 In news today it's reported that in Scotland our NHS Trusts have had to step in to run 42 GP practices to help get them out of difficulty after the practices found it impossible to recruit new GPs to replace those leaving practice. Their report says that 2million Scots are now registered to practices when there are a staffing shortage of GPs. Yet the SNP say there is no crisis in our NHS. REALLY Then we discover that absenteeism in the Police Scotland call centre that failed to report the M9 crash was running at 10.7% with staff having to work some 8000 hours of overtime to cover staff recruitment shortages. Yet the SNP have ordered an enquiry into call handling procedures. What a joke our Scottish Government is! Running our devolved services into the ground whilst wasting our money on a referendum and a bridge over the Forth that wasn't needed. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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