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Around half of pancreatic cancer patients visit their GPs with their symptoms three times before being referred to hospital, and 16 per cent visit their GP seven times or more before receiving the correct diagnosis.
There is definitely improvement in relation to how meaningfully lived experience is incorporated and taken into account. In the latest round of reports, there is more acknowledgment of the importance of that.
Visits
In this parliamentary year the Committee has visited the Social Security Scotland headquarters in Dundee on two separate occasions (1 November 2021 and 29 April 2022).
Section 25: Commencement
Power conferred on: the Scottish Ministers
Power exercisable by: Regulations made by Scottish statutory instrument
Parliamentary procedure: Laid, no procedure
Revised or new power: Revised
Provision
Section 25(2) provides that the Scottish Ministers may by regulations appoint days on which provisions of the Bill will come into force other than sections 22, 23, 25 and 26 which come into force on the day after Royal Assent.