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In part, this involves surgeons firstly visiting Dr Veronikis in the US. I am disappointed that clinical commitments have prevented that visit taking place over the summer as I had expected.
The bill says that the Care Inspectorate will lead the development of new methodologies for social care and that Healthcare Improvement Scotland will lead on new healthcare tools.
We need regulation, and it is important that we have it, but it has to allow for new technology that needs room to experiment, but, at the same time, be flexible enough to deal with new issues as they arise and which we cannot foresee.
I am not aware of an equivalent to the new entrant schemes for new farmers, for example, to provide grant funding for people to set up their own woodland operation.
I come back to my point that this would be a piece of infrastructure for the whole of Scotland, not just the part of it that gets the new hospital, the new bridge or the new road.