Graham Smith

Past President CDS Group BDA, Dentist PDS,Scottish PDS Committee BDA.

[Graham Smith @GrahamS45408485]

@oakroyd @UndisScot My grandfather worked on her, great ship

[Graham Smith @GrahamS45408485]

@PastGlasgow Gilmorehill Hall to the right. Venue for many degree exams back in the eighties 😬

[BDA @TheBDA]

1 in 4 patients facing tooth extractions under general anaesthetic in Scotland are waiting over a year.

We've gathered the evidence.

Politicians, policymakers and practitioners need to come together.

Our patients deserve better.
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https://t.co/TQBIO8lkhn

[Traffic Scotland @trafficscotland]

NEW ❗⌚ 11:54

🛣️ A87 - Loch Cluanie

⛔ CLOSED in BOTH DIRECTIONS due to a collision.

Emergency services are in attendance. Please #UseAltRoute, if possible.

@NWTrunkRoads

[reGlasgow @reglasgow_web]

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👉 Visit https://t.co/cP2t3UZcP6

#reGlasgow #GlasgowDevelopment

[Graham Smith @GrahamS45408485]

@PaulJSweeney @PastGlasgow @LostGlasgow @is_glasgow @MurphyNiallGLA @MrJohnNicolson @GlasgowHeritage @SAVEtoReuse @newglasgowsoc @theAHSS @AndyBurnhamGM When you look at what has been achieved @mcr_central it’s a case of what might have been😞

[National Audit Office @NAOorguk]

The dental recovery plan is not on course to fulfil its ambition of an additional 1.5 million treatments by March 2025. Even if achieved, this would still mean 2.6 million fewer treatments were carried out compared to six years ago.

Read our report: https://t.co/NXnpJZ7ifL

[Graham Smith @GrahamS45408485]

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[Scottish Lib Dems @scotlibdems]

The SNP paused the construction of a replacement eye hospital due to budget pressures.

This illustrates that this was a decision lacking in foresight.

The SNP’s financial decisions are a mess of their own making. Patients and staff shouldn’t be made to pick up the pieces.

[Graham Smith @GrahamS45408485]

@UndisScot Uig ,Skye

[Graham Smith @GrahamS45408485]

@LostGlasgow Your plooks weren’t too bad- mine were worse! Don’t Beat on the Brat…………….

[Traffic Scotland @trafficscotland]

👷Amnesties Roadworks 👷

#A87 Portree

Road closure on the #A87 at Portree for planned roadworks with amnesties starting at 7pm every night

#PlanAhead @NWTrunkRoads

[Helen McArdle @HMcArdleHT]

📢Today @heraldscotland launches a survey with @ScottishDental - we want to hear your experiences of NHS dentistry since the pandemic and over past 6mths👇
READER POLL The reform of NHS dentistry in Scotland: what’s your verdict? https://t.co/w6AArT5Tf8
https://t.co/O1wzZPq1U6

[MAC @MacmillanArc]

Woodburning stoves have now been banned by the Scottish Government. A small thread:
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[Graham Smith @GrahamS45408485]

@w8charlotte @TheBDA Looking forward to wellcoming colleagues to Scotland for the first time in 15 years!!

[BDA @TheBDA]

"We have seen some changes to NHS dentistry in Scotland," says @w8charlotte

"The Scottish Government cannot see this as 'Mission Accomplished'."

If you're a dentist in🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 we need your feedback.

📝Complete this 5-minute survey.
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https://t.co/uHiukTbYiK

[BDA @TheBDA]

No.

We are saying that 14 years of systemic underfunding and 18 years of failure to fix a broken contract is what’s fuelling the crisis in NHS dentistry.

Everything else is noise…

[BDA @TheBDA]

We keep hearing the same lines from Government.

But what we need today is some honesty.

To save NHS dentistry we need real reform and fair funding.

Deeds not words.

📺Watch and mark your card👉 https://t.co/W29zgWP53V

[Moz Perkins⚓️🇨🇶🇬🇧 Author 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 @MozPerkins]

On November 7th, 1920, in strictest secrecy, four unidentified British bodies were exhumed from temporary battlefield cemeteries at Ypres, Arras, the Asine and the Somme.

None of the soldiers who did the digging were told why.

The bodies were taken by field ambulance to GHQ at St-Pol-Sur-Ter Noise. Once there, the bodies were draped with the union flag.

Sentries were posted and Brigadier-General Wyatt and a Colonel Gell selected one body at random. The other three were reburied.

A French Honour Guard was selected and stood by the coffin overnight of the chosen soldier overnight.

On the morning of the 8th November, a specially designed coffin made of oak from the grounds of Hampton Court arrived and the Unknown Warrior was placed inside.

On top was placed a crusaders sword and a shield on which was inscribed:

"A British Warrior who fell in the GREAT WAR 1914-1918 for King and Country".

On the 9th of November, the Unknown Warrior was taken by horse-drawn carriage through Guards of Honour and the sound of tolling bells and bugle calls to the quayside.

There, he was saluted by Marechal Foche and loaded onto HMS Vernon bound for Dover. The coffin stood on the deck covered in wreaths, surrounded by the French Honour Guard.

Upon arrival at Dover, the Unknown Warrior was met with a nineteen gun salute - something that was normally only reserved for Field Marshals.

A special train had been arranged and he was then conveyed to Victoria Station, London.

He remained there overnight, and, on the morning of the 11th of November, he was finally taken to Westminster Abbey.

The idea of the unknown warrior was thought of by a Padre called David Railton who had served on the front line during the Great War the union flag he had used as an altar cloth whilst at the front, was the one that had been draped over the coffin.

It was his intention that all of the relatives of the 517,773 combatants whose bodies had not been identified could believe that the Unknown Warrior could very well be their lost husband, father, brother or son...

THIS is the reason we wear poppies.

We do not glorify war.

We remember - with humility - the great and the ultimate sacrifices that were made, not just in this war, but in every war and conflict where our service personnel have fought - to ensure the liberty and freedoms that we now take for granted.

Every year, on the 11th of November, we remember the Unknown Warrior.

At the going down of the sun, and in the morning, we will remember them.