“There’s an operational issue somewhere that someone needs to sort out.” The booking and appointments system in Scotland is overseen by NHS National Services Scotland who who have outsourced it to Californian IT giant ServiceNow. In England - which uses a British contractor, System C - people are being invited by age group to book their own vaccinations, while in their own vaccinations, while in Scotland patients are mostly sent appointment letters. The Herald understands that, from Monday, staff on Scotland’s national Covid helpline will be allowed for the first time to make bookings directly for missed patients following repeated complaints that people were being passed “from pillar to post”.
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Letters: If you don t want indie, why not be brave enough to hold a vote against it?
No voters won the day in the 2014 referendum. Should another vote be held to prove that independence is still a minority cause? LISTENING to Radio Scotland this morning (May 10), I was amazed at the level of misunderstanding there seemed to be around how to decide one’s vote. It was as if most contributors thought that they were voting for or against independence last Thursday. That election was to vote for the party or parties whose manifesto one wanted implemented in government. Some parties included the intention to hold a referendum on independence, others planned to block one. It was not about deciding on independence, just the opportunity to do so at a later date.
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The country’s leading pollster, Professor Sir John Curtice, of Strathclyde University, predicted the SNP would fall one or two MSPs shy of the 65 majority mark. Ms Sturgeon, who lost the SNP’s majority in 2016 as her party fell from 69 to 63 MSPs, played down the prospect of recovering it, calling a majority a “very, very long shot”. She said: “That has always been on a knife-edge; a small number of votes in a small number of seats.” Ms Sturgeon campaigned on the basis of her experience and leading the country through the pandemic, and giving people the chance to vote in Indyref2 by 2024, Covid permitting, followed by independence in 2026. Her Unionist opponents said the economic recovery should take priority over the constitution.
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