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Recognising that the new arrangements will no doubt need some time to bed in I believe that, taken alongside our ongoing infrastructure investment and wider policy initiatives, we are on the right path to achieve that.
We are currently commissioning an independent evaluation of the fund’s impact, but it has already provided hundreds of fully funded training courses and direct investment into 26 supply chain companies in the region, estimated to create more than 1,200 new green jobs in the process.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
7 February 2022
In the event of an active outbreak management scenario, Boards may restrict visiting to essential visits only, which would allowone supportive person to accompany a pregnant mother to the booking scan, 20 week scan and any emergency appointments.
I would like more NHS 24 input as cover for staff training, especially reception training, as well as more capacity and communication to patients. For example, when the latest changes to the vaccination project were made, we suddenly had umpteen calls from patients requesting vaccination appointments, because they had not seen that there was a new number to call and that GP surgeries were no longer the point of contact.
The cancer action plan for Scotland for 2023 to 2026 includes carrying out a clinically-led review of the latest evidence to determine“whether there is merit in specific additional or alternative cancer waiting times standards for different types of cancer and cancer treatment”.In 2024, NHS Scotland launched a primary care cancer education platform, which p...
On the four-hour A and E targets, the latest data shows that there has been an improvement in performance and that it has strengthened over recent weeks.
That has all been confirmed today by the independent experts at the Scottish Parliament. That is just the latest example of SNP financial incompetence.
That is why, in an earlier answer, I referenced the latest CAMHS statistics, which show that there is room for improvement but that we are seeing a recovery in our services.
Those changes are among the most positive in more than half a decade. In the latest quarter, the overall CAMHS waiting list has decreased by 1,398 children since the previous quarter; the number of children waiting for more than 18 weeks has decreased by 658 since the previous quarter; and the number of children who have waited for more than 52 weeks has d...