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I am quite prepared to accept that change might be needed, but I suspect that my constituents will have to face bad news before they have any prospect of reliable good news from Tayside Health Board.
We consider that to be a positive solution to a problem that is, at this stage, massive. Something like 330,000 people visit the Tam O'Shanter Experience—its situation has brought the issue to the table—every year.
They feel that they have been excluded from the best level of out-of-hours care that is offered by the new model of service delivery—it boils down to the fairly obvious fact that the further away one is from a primary care centre, the more disadvantaged one will be.
NHS Quality Improvement Scotland will be invited to conduct a second series of review visits. These visits will focus on those criteria that were not met at the original visits.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
14 November 2003
To ask the Scottish Executive on what occasions since 1999 ministers have accompanied Scottish firms on visits overseas to promote export marketing and sales, broken down by minister and country visited.
We also hope to provide a service in facilitating the commercialisation of new opportunities in energy.It is often said that Scotland has the best renewables resource in Europe, particularly wind and wave.
We will work closely with the four existing regional partnerships and with local government during the next few months to work out the best shape and function for the new bodies.