Health Committee, 14 Nov 2006

Meeting date: Tuesday, November 14, 2006

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Scottish Parliament Health Committee Tuesday 14 November 2006

[The Convener opened the meeting at 14:00]

Good afternoon. I welcome everyone to the committee. In particular, I welcome to the public gallery Professor Jim McGoldrick, the chair of NHS Fife and an old friend of those of us who are based in Tayside; Mr Ben Conway, the chair of the west Fife community health partnership; and Mrs Susan Manion, the chief executive officer of the west Fife community health partnership. I understand that they are going to stay for most of our proceedings and I hope that they find our business of at least marginal interest.

No apologies have been received, so we will proceed with item 1. [Interruption.] I am advised by the clerk that the minister is not with us yet—he is en route. Euan Robson is not with us either, so we cannot proceed with item 3. I suspend the meeting briefly while we get ourselves organised.

Meeting suspended.

On resuming—