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I could have gone with issues based on NHS Highland figures, such as the fact that Highland patients have to wait 26 weeks for routine orthopaedic surgery and 47 weeks for routine ophthalmic surgery.
Two years ago, I was told that the new cancer centre would be built in 2025, but the health board is now telling me that it is likely to be a decade before we see a new cancer centre.
—Official Report, Rural Affairs, Islands and Natural Environment Committee, 26 January 2022; c 27-28. A first step in changing those rules could be mandatory reporting for the private sector, which would increase accountability.
That was again emphasised to me in meetings held in Germany as part of an MSP visit during the summer. How is the cabinet secretary ensuring that Scotland does not act merely as a supplier of renewable energy exported by international companies that are internationally owned?
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
3 February 2021
To ask the Scottish Government whether speech and language therapists that carry out home visits can continue to visit their clients under the current COVID-19 restrictions.