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To ask the Scottish Executive what steps it will take to address problems arising from the fact that people in parts of rural Clydesdale will have a three and a half hour round bus trip to get to hospital appointments once local hospital services are largely centralised in Wishaw.
Veterans must apply for war pensions—they do not get them automatically. They have to go through the Ministry of Defence to get them and they are put through such a fight, even though they are very ill.It took me five years to get my 50 per cent war pension.
In that spirit, I invite Karen Gillon and Jamie Stone not to press amendments 35 and 35A. Given the nods I am getting from committee members, the minister's reassurances and what I have heard about the new section, I am prepared, if the committee agrees, to withdraw amendment 35.
What Robert Owen did at New Lanark was to look at things in the opposite way, saying that, if we help and support people, show kindness and encourage the best in people, we get a better society.
Consequently, birth parents do not have the ability to set in motion a process via professionals through which they would ultimately getnews. An adopted adult who is contacted could decline to give further news.
The new measures that Malcolm Chisholm announced last Saturday in his final act as Minister for Health and Community Care will ensure that patient representation is improved in future.
There seems to be no dissent from that, so we will see whether we can get someone to address us on the issue.I thank Des McNulty for attending the meeting.