Yearly Archives: 2025

Education

Impact of Deprivation on Scottish Educational Achievement

The Impact of Deprivation on Educational Achievement The 2023-24 Scottish Higher exam results, published summer 2025,  reveal an educational landscape where socioeconomic deprivation continues to significantly impact pupil achievement.  Analysis of secondary schools' results across Scotland demonstrates that the level of deprivation remains one of the strongest predictors of academic success, with profound implications for…

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2025-07-30
Health / SIMD 2020

Social Deprivation and Drug-Related Deaths

Deprivation a Driving Factor of Drug-Related Deaths Scotland continues to face the most severe drug-related mortality crises within the UK and across Europe (see Scotland Drug-Related Deaths Scandal this website) with significant disparities between the rates in socially deprived and affluent groups.  Analysis of data from the National Records of Scotland reveals that drug-related deaths…

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2025-07-16
Health / SIMD 2020

Scotland Drug-Related Deaths Scandal

Two Decades of Rising Drug Related Deaths Data from National Records Scotland reveals Scotland's drug-related death (DRD) crisis has exploded over the past two decades.   Since 2004 the DRD rate has grown from 356 to 1065 deaths per year (see Figure 1 and Table 1). Breaking down the data by gender reveals even more distressing…

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2025-07-16
Health

The Surge in ADHD Diagnosis

Britain's ADHD Boom How a perfect storm of pandemic pressures, social media awareness, and evolving medical understanding has transformed the landscape of ADHD in the UK and Scotland Morag was always the scatty one at school. She grew into the friend who lost her keys daily, forgot appointments, and never seemed able to finish what…

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2025-06-27
Health

A Guide to New Weight Loss Drugs

The New Weight Loss Revolution A new class of drugs has been making headlines recently due to significant weight loss in people using these drugs.  The drugs belong to a class know as glucagon-like peptide-1 receptor agonists (GLP-1 RAs).  They were originally developed to treat type 2 diabetes (T2DM) and only later approved for weight…

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2025-06-05
NHS

NHS Scotland Gynaecology Appointments Backlog

Women with Gynaecological Health Problems Face Long Delays for Treatment The issue of long waits for treatment for women with gynaecological conditions has recently featured in the mainstream media following a report by The Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists (RCOG).  The report highlighted the huge backlog of 570,000 women in the English NHS system…

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2025-01-29