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Stonehaven traditionally receives visitors from the travelling community—it is not uncommon to find them in the surrounding area in the summer. The visit of the travelling community has begun early this year.
That is the starting point.Since I inherited the bill from Roseanna Cunningham, I have visited hospitals, hospices and care homes and spoken to clinicians, professors, doctors, nurses, managers, patients and family members in the east, west and north.
The change is about momentum and achieving economies of scale that allow us to scale up the sector in the coming years. It became clear on our visit to Bremerhaven that, although people there were tooling up and doing much, they were already—and were liable to continue to be—supply constrained.
They made a kindness tree to mark the day on which the stone visited their school. They endorsed entirely the ethos of the stone and they were delighted that such a beautiful object—essentially Scottish in form and symbolic values—was heading round the world.
When I take such a report to committee, I expect members of both the administration and the opposition to examine forensically why we have chosen to postpone one project over all the other capital projects, and why we have decided to phase things differently.Other elected members always test the due process in comparing everything within the capital program...
There were 59,740 ALISS hits from NHS Inform's Scotland's Service Directory in 2021, a four-fold increase compared with 2020. Presenting these statistics to the Committee, the ALLIANCE concluded: "This increased engagement is welcome and demonstrates the position of ALISS as a useful tool to enable people to manage their own health, care and wellbeing".
One of the early things that we did in partnership with the Ellen MacArthur Foundation was take a group of teachers on an international study visit to the Netherlands, to see Desso carpets, which James Curran mentioned, which is doing world-leading work in this area.
It got its throughcare team and its CLD team together and it resourced new premises called @ Scott Street in the centre of Perth, which are worth a visit. It is a young person-friendly place.
Moreover, in such circumstances, no one might be available except for the responsible medical officer, but the patient might not agree with that person making notifications or representations on their behalf.