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Jim Graham.

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Scottish independence. Politics, sport, music and films. Colonialism is about economic exploitation. Don’t fall for the lies, smears and scaremongering aimed at maintaining the Westminster stranglehold. Give your children and grandchildren a better life.

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Talking-up Scotland @talking-upscotland.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
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NHS England’s waiting list edges ahead of Scotland as winter pressures loom
There are “ominous signs” that winter pressures are already affecting the NHS in England, according to senior health leaders. The warning comes as new data reveals the waiting list for …
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Talking-up Scotland @talking-upscotland.bsky.social · 23h
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SNP faces zero backlash when very few will even notice this ant-abortion group supported by at most only 4% of Scots
In the National today, the above: SNP leaders are facing a backlash from their own members after allowing an anti-abortion group to host a fringe event at the party conference. Women for Independen…
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Talking-up Scotland @talking-upscotland.bsky.social · 23h
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LATEST – England’s paedophile nursery crisis was averted in Scotland by Alex Salmond government nearly 20 years ago
In the Guardian yesterday, the above and: A paedophile nursery worker was cleared by an investigation overseen by a local authority three years before he was arrested. In February, Vincent Chan was…
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Talking-up Scotland @talking-upscotland.bsky.social · 23h
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As long waits triggering corridor care surge to twice the Scottish rate in England, One RCEM ‘leading emergency doctor’ in Scotland is ‘completely terrified’ but not for them
From BBC Scotland today, based on the RCEM union convener in Scotland: A leading emergency doctor has said she is “completely terrified” about upcoming winter pressures on Scotland&#821…
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Talking-up Scotland @talking-upscotland.bsky.social · 19h
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Why does the Royal College of Emergency Medicine avoid comparisons with Scotland when they reveal England to be the ‘Capital of Deadly Long Waits?’
By stewartb When reading across the press statements that the RCEM makes regularly on the waiting times performances of the NHS in England, the north of Ireland, Scotland and Wales, it is rare to f…
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Talking-up Scotland @talking-upscotland.bsky.social · 18h
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Could hemp be Scotland’s answer to olive oil?
Industrial hemp is making a comeback after a pilot project proved it can thrive in Scottish soil.
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Talking-up Scotland @talking-upscotland.bsky.social · 18h
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‘Troubled’, not so ‘ageing’ Arran ferry’s ‘faults’ started when the contract to build it was awarded by Scottish Conservatives to an inexperienced English yard on its last legs in a ‘troubled’ Conserv...
In the Scotsman, two days ago, the above and: A CalMac ferry which returned to service a year ago after 20 months of repairs that cost £11 million is to be retired, the operator has announced. Cale…
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John Swinney @johnswinney.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Across these islands, the political landscape has changed. Scotland, Wales and the north of Ireland are led by First Ministers committed to independence from the UK. Scotland has the right to decide its future and no Westminster government can simply deny democracy.
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John Swinney @johnswinney.bsky.social · 16h
Scotland proudly stands in solidarity with Ukraine. My statement on today’s reports 👇
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Oxfam GB @oxfamgb.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
The killing and deprivation in Gaza must not be normalised under the cover of an agreement. The international community’s responsibility does not end with an agreement on paper. #ThisIsNotACeasefire #CeasefireNOW
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Jake Broe @realjakebroe.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
This tweet is from 500 days ago. Apparently the "really bad things" that would happen to Putin and Russia if they refused to stop their war would be Trump lifting sanctions on them and paying them billions of dollars for less than a days worth of America's diesel needs.
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Independent Voices @indyvoices.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Oh my God! The First Minister is on the UK ‘Flagship’ political programme, #BBCLauraK and all she can produce is a series of #SNPbad smears. Most of them reheats of Tory/LibDem/Tabloid nonsense.
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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
“Tariffs are a favoured diplomatic tool of President Trump and Reform could face significant legal challenges if it follows suit” (page2) Farage is a desperate, vindictive bullshitter who only appeals to racists with no idea how the world and trade and law actually work. Cos that’s a bit hard.
Farage's tariff plan on migrants

Reform UK would impose tariffs on countries that refuse to accept the return of migrants, under plans expected to be announced this week.

Nigel Farage will outline new policies, including levies on goods and services, that would force countries to agree to deportations.

The party also proposes banning their airlines from British airspace.

The escalation of Reform’s hardline deportations policy comes as the Conservatives embrace a new political strategy designed to recapture voters with a focus on the economy.

Some 20,900 people have crossed the Channel in small boats this year, down about 40 per cent on the same period in 2025, according to official figures. Since 2018, more than 211,000 have made the crossing, of whom about 9,700 had been returned by June.

Reform intends to impose visa bans for people who legally want to visit the UK from Pakistan, Afghanistan, Syria, Eritrea, Sudan and Somalia until the countries agree to take back illegal migrants and foreign criminals, under plans announced in February. The list includes several of the countries with the largest numbers of asylum seekers in the UK in recent years.
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James O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 17h
Trump’s obeisance to Putin has been established beyond even the vaguest scintilla of doubt; the possibility of another January 6-style assault on US democracy after/during the mid-terms is clearly acute and ‘we’ are still wary of calling fascism fascism. These are the moments…
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Talking-up Scotland @talking-upscotland.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
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Glasgow Labour did not just build a hospital near a huge source of deadly bacteria but also of cyanides, arsenic and cadmium
Cadmium? One of the main effects of cadmium poisoning is weak and brittle bones. The bones become soft (osteomalacia), lose bone mineral density (osteoporosis), and become weaker. This results in j…
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Talking-up Scotland @talking-upscotland.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Scotland ‘one of safest places in world’, say BBC - The story BBC Scotland hid but BBC Spanish spread globally www.snp.org/scotland-one...
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Scotland ‘one of safest places in world’, say BBC — Scottish National Party
The evidence on justice is in, the results are clear, and the conclusion is inescapable: Scotland makes better decisions when Scotland decides for itself.
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Talking-up Scotland @talking-upscotland.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
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Glenn Campbell’s Podcast dare not question the Conservative plans to strip Holyrood of powers
By Liz S “Latest Tory proposal is to prevent the Scottish Parliament from pursuing its own vision, goals and objectives”! What Bowie stated in his speech, in that a future Tory government would ove…
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Talking-up Scotland @talking-upscotland.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
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At last, a Labour MP sees how dangerous Labour’s nuclear energy policy is
Well, I suppose it’s good to see this, even if a little later and on contrary tack at times to our earlier predictions. First, from the high-status Foreign Policy on January 20th 2025: Labour…
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weegingerdug @weegingerdug.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
The moral turpitude of the US under Trump is exemplified by the plan to livestream the execution of Nidal Hasan. It degrades all of America and everyone who does not condemn it. Yet what happens in America always crosses the Atlantic and affects us here. weegingerdug.wordpress.com/2026/10/10/a...
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America’s moral turpitude is infesting British politics
I don’t usually blog about America unless it directly affects or involves Scotland, but for the latest example of how far that once great country has fallen into moral turpitude under Trump, …
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Oxfam GB @oxfamgb.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
One year after its agreement, the ceasefire in Gaza is in name only. The genocide and suffering continues, with Israeli forces killing and injuring Palestinians daily, and ongoing blocks to the entry of lifesaving aid, medical supplies and other vital repair equipment and building materials.
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Independent Voices @indyvoices.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
NELSON MANDELA ‘While we were physically denied our freedom in the country of our birth, a city 6,000 miles away, and as renowned as Glasgow, refused to accept the legitimacy of the apartheid system, and declared us to be free.’ #Mandela
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Verminous Scot @etkwebster.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
"It always seems impossible until it's done." Nelson Mandela Let's get our independence Scotland #ScottishIndependenceNow
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
The United States is now officially allied with Vladimir Putin and Russia. We will fund Russia’s genocidal war machine in exchange for Putin helping Trump and the Republican Party in the midterms. One of the most shameful and disgusting days in the history of this Republic.
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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Aren’t they all repulsive… These corrupt, evil, traitorous men… Farage is particularly pathetic, in his little cap, selling us out to his monstrous sugar-daddy.
Photo of Trump and Putin shaking hands on their deal… 


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Zelensky furious after Trump announces deal to buy diesel deal from PutinTrump and Farage grinning to camera. Farage wearing a Trump baseball cap. Loser.


Nigel Farage jets off to meet Donald Trump and 'talk down
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Paul @fucktheracists.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
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Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Zack Polanski on BBC News, "Of course I can carry on as leader of the Green party. We over tripled our vote share in Holborn & St Pancras" My view: Labour may have held the seat, but it did so with fewer votes. A clear warning against Labour taking its voters for granted.
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weegingerdug @weegingerdug.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Kevin McKenna bewailing the closure and merger of many catholic churches in Glasgow one of which is the one my parents dragged me to every Sunday. I won't be sad to see it close. I refused to go back after a pervy priest tried to get me to talk about wanking. www.heraldscotland.com/news/2662358...
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The day Glasgow’s Irish Catholic heart was told half its churches must go
Half of Glasgow's Catholic churches face closure under radical archdiocese plans. Kevin McKenna examines what will be lost and why it matters
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Believe in Scotland @believeinscotland.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
🇪🇺 Labour believe 10 years and changing circumstances IS reason enough to reconsider EU membership. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Labour believe 12 years and changing circumstances IS NOT enough to reconsider Scottish independence. Read more about their double standards here: www.believeinscotland.org/burnhams_bre...
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Believe in Scotland @believeinscotland.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🇮🇪🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 The break-up of the UK is near. 🌍 Let's build better, fairer, independent nations. #BelieveinScotland
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The SNP @snp.org · 09/10/2026
Every day, the SNP as the Scottish Government acts as a shield, protecting the people of Scotland from the worst fallout of Westminster’s short-sighted choices. www.snp.org/scotland-one-of-safest-…
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Scotland ‘one of safest places in world’, say BBC — Scottish National Party
The evidence on justice is in, the results are clear, and the conclusion is inescapable: Scotland makes better decisions when Scotland decides for itself.
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The SNP @snp.org · 09/10/2026
Westminster pledged a £200 million support package to safeguard the Grangemouth industrial cluster. Yet, as recent Freedom of Information requests and parliamentary evidence have laid bare, the grand sum of £0 has actually reached the area. www.snp.org/labour-grangemouths-mis…
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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
“There’s nothing so powerful in 🇬🇧politics as the rightwing unreality machine... It’s a place where Brexit will be cost free, Ed Miliband is a Marxist, Liz Truss was a serious political figure”…and Badenoch is shielded from her own X-fuelled mediocrity. goodallandgoodluck.substack.com/p/the-strang...
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The Strange Myth of Kemi Badenoch
Why does she have the best press in politics?
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Sathnam Sanghera @sathnam.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Dear tv and radio producers. Thankyou for the invitation. But, no, I do not want to appear on your show to defend the idea that I am English, after 50 years of living and working here, because the increasingly feral right want to turn this into a "debate" and you cannot see how you're being played
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Talking-up Scotland @talking-upscotland.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
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Gaslighting the people over a managed and insignificant gas leak on an almost empty ferry – Whether or not Stephen Flynn saw the emails does not matter
From BBC Scotland today: Transport Secretary Stephen Flynn told a Holyrood committee he knew nothing about a gas leak on board a CalMac ferry, despite records showing he had been emailed about the …
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Talking-up Scotland @talking-upscotland.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
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Public Health ‘disaster’ in England as hospital critical incidents run at 2 to 4 times the level in Scotland
From BBC Scotland yesterday, the above and: Staff sickness was a major factor behind the critical incident declared by NHS Grampian last month, its chief executive has said. A board-level critical …
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Talking-up Scotland @talking-upscotland.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
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Serving police officers suspended over allegations of violence against women and girls are 70% more common per head in England & Wales than in Scotland
From BBC Scotland yesterday: Police Scotland has said 45 serving officers are currently suspended over allegations of violence against women and girls. There are currently 16 402 FTE police officer…
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Talking-up Scotland @talking-upscotland.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
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Labour chair of housing calls for urgent funds so England can still build fewer affordable homes than Scotland has been doing for years
From the Guardian today, the above, and: The Labour chair of the Commons housing committee is urging John Healey to bring forward billions of pounds of planned spending on social and affordable hom…
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Talking-up Scotland @talking-upscotland.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
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The Shadowy Secretary of State Against Scotland
Harriet Cross was born in Harrogate, North Yorkshire and grew up in West Cork, Ireland where her mother was from. She attended Bandon Grammar School in Bandon, County Cork before the family moved t…
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Talking-up Scotland @talking-upscotland.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
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Latest Tory proposal is to prevent the Scottish Parliament from pursuing its own vision, goals and objectives!
By stewartb The Tories – that very same party which has failed, often by a long way, to win any national or UK election in Scotland since the mid 1950s – has the gall to threaten to downgrade the S…
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Talking-up Scotland @talking-upscotland.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
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Talking-up Scotland in 2026 will easily beat last year’s number of reports written and visitors attracted with almost three months, 84 days, still to go
It’s with great pleasure that I can reveal the significantly increased audience and the presumably connected surge in our output of well-researched rebuttals of media lies and revelations of …
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Talking-up Scotland @talking-upscotland.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
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Why is Her Majesty’s Inspector of Constabulary only investigating how police investigate violence in Scotland when it is the lowest in the UK here?
investigates violence. Her Majesty’s Inspector of Constabulary is also looking at Police Scotland’s approach to repeat offenders and victims. So, quickly, we’ve done this so many …
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Talking-up Scotland @talking-upscotland.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
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No matter how they try Scotland is not having England’s maternity crisis – It’s just a review
BBC Scotland’s Lisa Summers trying to keep up the exaggerated image of the significance of Scotland’s National Maternity Review interviewing the Chair, Professor Christine McCourt and c…
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Talking-up Scotland @talking-upscotland.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
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NHS Scotland treating 20% more in 12 weeks than NHS England in 12 weeks as think-tank predicts a crisis there by the next election
18-week hospital waiting time target in England – that’s according to the warning from think-tank the Health Foundation. Across the BBC this morning and in the Telegraph, the above and:…
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Talking-up Scotland @talking-upscotland.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
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BBC Scotland are yet again ‘gunning for Swinney’
By Liz S Clearly the BBC are yet again ‘gunning for Swinney” on behalf of a (pro) UK party (just as they also did , and still are doing, to former FM’s who were SNP leaders). That is their BBC 24/7…
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Talking-up Scotland @talking-upscotland.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
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Punished and not rewarded because we voted to stay
Here is another story linked to another UK party that, so far, the BBC have avoided on their website, yet as a situation it is shocking for Scotland and devolution, but it’s not surprising it’s bei…
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Talking-up Scotland @talking-upscotland.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
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Talking-up Scotland @talking-upscotland.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
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Comparisons only newsworthy when they can be framed as unfavourable to Scotland
By stewartb Are comparisons between the constituent parts of the UK only deemed newsworthy by the editors of public service broadcasters when they can be framed as unfavourable to Scotland? Beyond …
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Talking-up Scotland @talking-upscotland.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
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57% of new social lets already go to homeless households, up from 36% ten years before
From STV today, the above and: Scotland could cut the most extreme homelessness by nearly half within just the next two years, a study has found. The number of Scots facing the worst forms of homel…
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Talking-up Scotland @talking-upscotland.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
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Alex Cole Hamilton leads the least powerful party in Holyrood yet dreams of power
Let onto the top of the front page of the Herald today, the above. Oh, really, wee Eck? Have a look at this. Sox 65 MSPs gives you a voting majority and the SNP/Greens combination has 72? Remind me…
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Talking-up Scotland @talking-upscotland.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
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Scotland’s extra-funded national winter health plan package is likely to be more co-ordinated and more effective
From New winter health plan to ease hospital pressures published today: Expanded Hospital at Home services, a public awareness campaign and targeted investment to reduce waiting lists are all part …
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