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Every local paper has had a half-page advert asking for people's views and explaining how they can get in contact and attend the consultative meetings that will be held.
I hope that over the next few weeks, as their policy becomes clearer, we in Scotland will get a chance to develop our policies, which will ensure that Scottish universities and Scottish students stay, as I said, ahead of the game.
The minister will realise that in remote areas in Scotland—including my constituency—we have huge problems getting health service professionals. He will also understand that the role played by immigrants from other countries has underpinned the health service in the past.
As a result, in a week of record business failures—with 240 businesses lost in Scotland so far this year—Wendy Alexander told The Herald that she"can't get the growth issue on the agenda"of the Cabinet.
This year, that money will fund the recruitment of 1,000 more nurses, almost 300 more doctors and a hospital building programme of eight new hospitals. We will double the number of one-stop clinics to ensure that we get much speedier response times.