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A proportion of the increase also reflects the impact of differing policy choices Ministers are making in Scotland compared with the rest of the UK. The SFC’s forecast for Child Disability Payment is based on outturn data from Social Security Scotland.
While no bias was found in our final decisions, disparities in how we handled some cases involving Black professionals compared to white professionals, and male professionals compared to female professionals, were identified.
HIFU is a less invasive treatment and results in shorter recovery times for patients, compared with surgery or radiotherapy. Clinical trials are under way to assess the side-effects of this treatment.