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I know that out-of-hours services have been causing concern, but the new options for GPs in the new GMS contract will make general practice more attractive, as will the other positive features of the contract.
The first of them concerns community health partnerships. A new regulation-making power has been added at new section 4B(5)(da) of the National Health Service (Scotland) Act 1978, as inserted by section 2 of the bill as amended.
New Deal To ask the Scottish Executive why participants in the new deal for young people programme in Scotland are more likely to experience two or three periods of unemployment than their counterparts in England and Wales.
A useful way in which we could look at that would be in terms of new committee structures, or evolving committee structures that take on board the integrated and holistic approach at council level.
We think that it is right that legislation should reflect the reality of the situation. The bill provides for the new NCC to devolve its functions to the new SCC and the new Welsh consumer council.