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The Scottish Police Services Authority (SPSA) has consulted interested parties including staff, unions, police authorities, Chief Constables and regional procurators fiscal about its proposal to build a new forensic laboratory in Dundee replacing existing facilities in Aberdeen and Dundee.
By engaging in this way, we seek to ensure that through integrated transport policies NHSScotland facilities, in particular new developments, are accessible to all by public transport, as well as by other means such as walking and cycling.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
28 March 2008
Work is routinely undertaken in NHS boards across Scotland to survey patients' experience of local care and to implement learning from the NHS Complaints Procedure and other local feedback arrangements. However, Better Together, our new national Patient Experience Programme will tap into patient experience in a more systematic way.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
13 March 2008
I look forward with optimism to the impact that Creative Scotland can have. I believe it will be a new, energetic force in our national life that should enable and support others to take risks.
In reaching a decision, careful consideration will be given to the impact on staff and the service provided to police forces, along with the potential efficiencies and service benefits a new facility could deliver. S3W-10509
In reaching a decision, careful consideration will be given to the impact on staff and the service provided to police forces, along with the potential efficiencies and service benefits a new facility could deliver. S3W-10509
To ask the Scottish Executive what steps it is taking to ensure that there is an appropriate balance of specialties in the new junior doctor training posts. Training numbers for junior doctors are set through a process that takes account of multiple factors.
To ask the Scottish Executive on how many new homes building work has been started by (a) local authorities and (b) housing associations since May 2007.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
28 February 2008
In primary care, a range of checks carried out by GPs involve measurement of blood pressure, and hypertension is one of the clinical domains of the Quality and Outcomes Framework of the new GMS contract. S3W-09308
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
28 February 2008
We are taking forward one of the recommendations from the National Forum on Drug-related Deaths which called for a new system to collect and standardise data on drug deaths.