Delays to the opening of the new flagship children’s hospital are disappointing to say the least.
will now not be fully open until next autumn – more than a year late.
The costly delay means families whose young ones need the best of treatment will potentially miss out.
It all adds to the lengthening list of negatives for the administration – including the fiasco, hospital hygiene issues and the struggle to control rising waiting times.
No one person is culpable so it would smack of political opportunism if was blamed for recent failings.
Ironically, one of the significant problems with the new Edinburgh hospital is with its ventilation system.
There has been far too much hot air expelled when the Scottish Government is confronted with NHS problems.
But our politicians and the managers of our health service should reflect on these and other failings and ask – is it good enough? We don’t think so.
BoJo in the dock
If yesterday had been a normal parliamentary Wednesday, Boris Johnson would have faced Prime Minister’s Questions.
Then he would have rolled up his sleeves for several hours of close questioning from the chairs of all the Commons committees.
It’s called parliamentary scrutiny.
But this draft-dodging Prime Minister avoided that, and more, by suspending Westminster for the longest period in modern history during the greatest peacetime crisis since the end of World War II.
He did so, the inner court of the Court of Session concluded yesterday, by misleading the Queen and the country.
The judges did not say so directly but, essentially, they accused him of lying, which is characteristic of the man who has only a skimming relationship with the truth. But the length of the break and the timing of it is a political outrage and has been ruled illegal.
Parliament should be recalled right now – we need no courts to tell us that.
Magical gesture
JK Rowling has given another £15million to a research facility for the treatment of multiple sclerosis.
The Harry Potter author’s immense generosity helped create Edinburgh University’s Anne Rowling Regenerative Neurology Clinic, named after her late mother, back in 2010.
And her latest gesture will benefit countless people suffering from the condition in the future.
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