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Jenny Marra (North East Scotland) (Lab)
We have to prepare now for the next couple of years. As the First Minister said, new variants might emerge that may require people to have top-up vaccines, depending on the first vaccine tha...
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The Convener (Jenny Marra)
Good morning and welcome to the sixth meeting in 2021 of the Public Audit and Post-legislative Scrutiny Committee.
The Convener
Agenda item 2 is consideration of “The 2019/20 audit of NHS Tayside”. I welcome our witnesses from NHS Tayside: Grant Archibald, the chief executive; Lorna Birse-Stewart, the chairperson; an...
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The Convener
Can I interrupt you, please? This is all extremely helpful and welcome, but we usually just have a two-minute statement at the start of the meeting. I ask that you draw your remarks to a clo...
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The Convener
Thank you very much for that extremely useful summary. I say to members that I wanted to take that full statement, which I know is outwith the usual parameters of the committee, because I th...
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The Convener
It has, but it has also been of keen interest to the committee. We have done a lot of work on mental health and children’s mental health specifically. It has been a real issue of concern for...
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The Convener
Thank you—that is very helpful. You said that there are 3.5 vacancies in CAMHS. Maybe my knowledge is a little bit out of date, but am I right in thinking that the full complement in CAMHS i...
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The Convener
Is that how you have managed to get the performance figures for CAMHS from 47 per cent up to 96.3 per cent? I think that that is what Lorna Birse-Stewart said.
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The Convener
Is that non-medicalised? Basically, you are referring children not necessarily to a consultant but to someone else who can help them—is that correct?
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The Convener
That would be helpful.
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