This search includes all content on the Scottish Parliament website, except for Votes and Motions. All Official Reports (what has been said in Parliament) and Questions and Answers are available from 1999. You can refine your search by adding and removing filters.
We have social care staff, and we work alongside medical staff, including visiting medical officers and nursing staff, which means that a host of wider issues are dealt with, rather than just the offending being dealt with.
As an MSP for the rural South Scotland region, I spend a lot of time in my car on the A75, A76, A77 and other roads, driving to visit farms and rural businesses. I know that the minister has those roads on his radar already.
This week is apprenticeship week and, yesterday, I visited an organisation in my constituency that provides care for adults with learning disabilities and others with severe needs.
Several years ago, I did a piece of research that concentrated on the special rapporteur to the United Nations Economic and Social Council. He visited a number of eastern European countries and noted the absence of any cultural centres where people could drop in and find out about the culture.
Recently, Fife Council moved that into the care at home initiative, and now, with the same workforce and the same investment that it put into transformation work between 2010 to 2015, it is getting 1,400 visits per week compared with 1,100 per week from the same workforce.
I think that the inspectorate is probably referring to the case record that people build up over tens of years of visits to a general practitioner. It can be a relatively thick volume.
We are engaged with the group that is looking at the proposed vehicle for the south of Scotland. We have hosted visits from members of the south of Scotland alliance so that they can see what we have been doing in the Highlands and Islands and what is transferable.
I cannot be the only politician in the chamber to have received many hundreds of emails and, indeed, personal visits from Craig Fraser. He has done an excellent job in taking the campaign forward on the Black Isle and in the wider area, with support from members of the local communities.
I want that to continue, just as I want the ability of people from Scotland and the rest of the UK to visit, study, work and live in other European countries to continue.