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Education and Skills Committee, focus group notes from visit to Shetland (June 2018)An issue associated with timetabling is the relative ease with which school delivered qualifications such as Highers courses can be accessed.
Spending £25 million or £30 million on a new school is like buying a new car, only using it to go work from Monday to Friday and leaving it to sit redundant for the rest of the week.
(b) NHS England employed 290,520.7 wte qualified nurses as at 31 December 2013. The latest available mid-year population estimate for 2012 is 53,493,700 (Office of National Statistics).
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
23 April 2013
The percentage of generic prescribing has remained constant at around 82% since 2007-08. Further information on the latest generic prescribing statistics can be found at: http://www.isdscotland.org/Health-Topics/Prescribing-and-Medicines/Publications/2012-12-18/2012-12-18-PrescribingGeneral-Summary.pdf.
Yes, the idea is to avoid that round of decision making happening at the same time as a new system is introduced. Do you think that introducing a new system will reduce some of the financial pressure on Creative Scotland?