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Professor Calder's report recommends that the Queen Mother's hospital should close before the new hospital opens. It has been said that that will leave a serious situation at Yorkhill, which will be a stand-alone hospital.
What support will he give to those dentists to ensure that they comply with the new disability access legislation? If relocation is necessary, what support will they get?
I have raised with Greater Glasgow NHS Board the delay that has arisen a result of the new arrangements in people becoming registered for the drug addiction treatment that exists.
I did not pick up on Michael Matheson's suggestion about writing to the petitioners formally to ask how they think that the new arrangements were working. We should do that formally, if that is agreeable.Members indicated agreement.
I agree absolutely that there should be a debate in Parliament; we intend to initiate such a debate early in the new year, but I also want to be absolutely clear about the proposal for a UK supreme court.
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.