Taylor Alison Swift is an American singer-songwriter. She is known for narrative songs about her personal life, which have received widespread media coverage. At age 14, Swift became the youngest artist signed by the Sony/ATV Music publishing house and, at 15, she signed her first record deal.
Her 2006 eponymous debut album was the longest-charting album of the 2000s in the US. Its third single, "Our Song", made her the youngest person to single-handedly write and perform a number-one song on the Billboard Hot Country Songs chart. Swift's second album, Fearless, was released in 2008.
Buoyed by the pop crossover success of the singles "Love Story" and "You Belong with Me", it became the US' best-selling album of 2009 and was certified diamond in the US. The album won four Grammy Awards, and Swift became the youngest Album of the Year winner.
'How do we fix the broken system' Scots have their say on NHS nurse staffing crisis
dailyrecord.co.ukScottish nurses are fighting for improved pay and conditions. It comes as NHS staff claim there are crippling nurse and facility shortages, and some staff have resorted to food banks.
A damning Royal College of Nursing (RCN) report, published in in June, found only a quarter of shifts had the planned number of registered nurses in Scotland.
It also found more than eight in 10 nurses reported staffing levels on their last shift having not been sufficient enough to meet the needs of patients.In June we reported at least five wards at Scotland’s showpiece hospital - Queen Elizabeth University Hospital - were forced to operate with just a single registered nurse on duty as the NHS crisis deepens.READ MORE: Five wards left with single nurse at crisis-hit Queen Elizabeth University HospitalA hospital insider said: “If something is not done to address this soon, patients will die and the nurse left alone in charge of 30 patients will be the scapegoat. “This is not just happening within the QEUH, it is a problem across hospitals throughout Glasgow, and probably the rest of Scotland.”GMB Scotland organiser Karen Leonard said the conditions staff were being forced to endure at QMUH were ”unacceptable to their health and welfare, and a clear risk to patient safety”.In the last month nurses from around Scotland have echoed the same concerns - Carstairs asking retired staff to come back to work amid the staffing crisis, a nurse writing to Nicola Sturgeon claiming care homes were 'bullied' into taking Covid patients, and reports NHS staff are using food banks.Are the Scottish Government and NHS doing enough to address shortages, support and compensate nurses?
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