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The current process requires each person to attend the Home Office or Migrant Help so that a screening interview can be conducted and basic information can be collected about their identity and their journey to be here in Scotland.
Maybe David could kick that one off, seeing as he is still on my screen. The point about data is really interesting, and I was interested in the conversation in the earlier part of the meeting.
As such, there is preventative stuff that needs to happen, which requires funding and a specific focus on deprivation, but that equally follows through into treatment and things such as early diagnosis and screening. We have both of those things to an extent.
At this end, your picture is coming and going a little, but we will hang on in there and we will, I hope, be able to keep you on screen. Members have quite a number of questions, so I ask for succinct questions and answers.
Paul Little, Matthew Sweeney, David Belsey and Diane Stockton are joining us remotely—I can now see your faces on the screen, which is good—and John Edward and Alastair Sim are with us in the committee room.
The other thing to bear in mind is the fact that vulnerable witnesses already have the right to give evidence either from behind a screen with protection or from a remote location.
Imagine their trying to navigate a budget document when it comes out. How much screen time do they have? How many bits of paper would they need to print off?
Members indicated agreement.Haemochromatosis (Screening) (PE1298) Haemochromatosis (Screening) (PE1298) PE1298, by George S Scott, calls on the Scottish Parliament to urge the Scottish Government to promote and support the introduction of national screening and a science-base...