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The aim is to be as person centred as possible and ensure that the patient is seen by all the necessary clinical staff - at one visit - and not be required to have multi-visits.
How do those family members and friends—especially the elderly and vulnerable—get to the hospital to visit their loved ones, given the transport issues that I mentioned?
That might not have been done as we had planned for under plan A, but contingency plans were in place to ensure that they would be able to access those funded hours.
The chair resigned in November, and the Scottish Government plans to recruit a new chair. In addition, the Government appointed four new members to the board in October, bringing the total number to eight, one of whom is acting as interim chair.
I understand that the RBGE sit within your remit, but I am also copying this letter to the Cabinet Secretary for Finance and Local Government, as its contents relate to budget matters. During the visit, we heard about the financial challenges the RBGE faces in delivering the Edinburgh Biomes Programme.