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I encourage Vertex to continue with those discussions, to get a new submission to the SMC and to make sure that the medicine is available at a fair price as quickly as possible.
What we need regarding a just society for the future are decisions that are requested democratically by the electorate. Most of the new laws etc that we get, the majority of the population do not want, therefore they are undemocratic.
She went on to say:
If a chief executive of an NHS board or a local council knows that they will be held to account for what they have done to contribute to outcomes and the work that they are doing in that respect, they will corral their information and activity to be able to demonstrate that. What gets measured—and what you are held to account for—is what gets done.
However, not long after we moved in, things changed structurally around Falkirk: a new retail park opened further out of the town, the footfall in the town centre appeared to get even less and the business that we had coming through the door fairly quickly tailed off.
To ask the Scottish Executive what consideration it has given to introducing legislation to prevent people under the age of 18 from gaining access to coin-operated sunbeds. The Public Health etc.
It was quite helpful. On policy issues, if you want to get public engagement or a higher profile, I would look at a new initiative in the New Zealand Parliament.