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While requiring its contractors to seek the best price in the open market, consistent with its quality standards, the Ministry does look to buy home produced products where they are competitive.
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.
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.
I caution members that we have some fairly detailed items of business to attend to at the meetings of 18 June and 26 June. We need to be very strict on time scales.It is unfortunate that Murray Tosh is not here today, given that he is the convener of the Procedures Committee.
That investment will support the provision of nearly 5,000 new homes for low-cost home ownership throughout Scotland by 2008.We have discussed with stakeholders new proposals for supporting low-cost home ownership based on shared equity and we will announce shortly the new mea...
Time for Reflection Welcome to Holyrood. Welcome to the new Scots Parliament. Our first item of business this morning is time for reflection, which is led by one of our new neighbours—the Rev Charles Robertson, minister of the Canongate kirk.
They must be fully involved in designing the working practices to support the new forms of service delivery. I am pleased that staff are increasingly involved in the consultation processes that are taking place in many parts of the country on developing those new services.