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To ask the Scottish Executive whether it plans to visit Blairgowrie Farmers' Co-operative to examine the work being undertaken there in connection with Finland's berry eating strategy to reduce the levels of cancer and heart disease.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
23 December 1999
To ask the Scottish Executive what benefits to the Scottish economy it anticipates as a result of the recent visit to Prague by the Minister for Finance.
They might get their depot medication and a visit from a community psychiatric nurse every few weeks, but they have little to do apart from sit in their houses and look at the walls.
That recommendation was a response to many submissions that were made to the committee and to members' experience of visiting different parts of Scotland and seeing how so-called joint working was not working.I have one problem.
Once the committee has had a discussion, we might want to take up your offer of coming out for a visit. I am sure that we would get much more out of that.
I have to confess that, because of other pressures, I have not gone into as much detail as I would have liked, but I now have a programme of visits to various schools and educational facilities.
The First Minister talks about my visits to hospitals. The last time that I visited a hospital, a nurse said to me, "The problem for us has been that this Government has had us focused on a bogus waiting list target that has undermined clinical priorities."