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To ask the Scottish Government whether it will undertake a pilot of screening and treating inmates with hepatitis C in Scottish Prison Service facilities in light of new treatment regimens with reported cure rates in excess of 90% with a 12 or eight week treatment period.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
29 April 2014
Since April 2011, funding of £50k per annum has been provided by the National Specialist and Screening Services Directorate of NHS National Services Scotland to support the Scottish Paediatric and Adult Haemoglobinopathy (SPAH) Managed Clinical Network (MCN).
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
23 April 2012
NHS Lanarkshire sent out 96,767 bowel screening kits (Faecal Occult Blood test and Faecal Immunochemical test kits) to individuals, accompanied by letters, between April 2010 and March 2011.
The actions that the Government wants to take on tenants’ rights, and the rented sector strategy that will be coming soon, will aim to address precarious living.
We know that tourism is one of Scotland’s most important industries, and getting more people to visit our rural communities will boost local economies and enable growth.
That is not acceptable and I am urging in this debate, as I will in a follow-up letter, that Fiona Hyslop should finally get out of the central belt, come to Moray, visit Keith and see the impact on the area.
Russell Findlay recognised the movement in that direction not just here but across the UK and across the world. Yesterday, I visited an Aberdeen police station to talk to some of the officers.