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At the meeting of health trust chief executives this morning, the Minister for Health and Community Care announced action to open two new fast-track theatres for orthopaedic surgery at the new centre in Clydebank.
Again, we cannot become involved in the individual case to which the petitioner refers. The new Scottish public services ombudsman, Alice Brown, has just taken up her post.
However, as the long title shows, the bill does not make that distinction—the provision for the new method of enforcement that is enshrined in part 2 of the bill does not restrict the new diligence to commercial cases.
I think that it would be more efficacious—party politics aside—if a new Administration, of whatever composition, and a new minister had copies of a good report on their desks.
As a result of the process, I am pleased to recommend, on behalf of the panel, that the Parliament nominate Professor Alice Brown to be appointed by Her Majesty as the new Scottish public services ombudsman.
It is a party that does not want to say that the new hospitals at Hairmyres, Wishaw, east Ayrshire, and the new royal infirmary in Edinburgh, are important.