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In 2019, the United Nations special rapporteur on the rights of persons with disabilities expressed significant concerns about Canada’s approach to medical assistance in dying, particularly from a disability perspective.
Across the panel this morning, we have all expressed how significant some of our organisations’ concerns are around rights violations for disabled people in Scotland today.
We in the corporate body do not have a party-political function. It is the will of Parliament to express whether it wants a commissioner and our responsibility is to facilitate that commissioner.
We have the talent—let us do something about it and support the motion from Dr Gulhane today. 17:19 The pandemic has been an extremely difficult time for all those who are learning and working in the NHS, and I, too, express my sincere thanks to them for their efforts.
Those recommendations, which included new community health nurse teams providing care that is currently delivered by health visitors and others, are currently being piloted in several health boards across Scotland.
The problem locally is that planners see their commitment to developing the local road network and junctions as being focused on a different junction—the north junction to Laurencekirk, which is the one that is likely to be used by commuters who live in the homes that will be built there. A view has been expressed locally and by planning applicants that an...