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However, that is not happening in every setting. The convener expressed the opinion that everyone who has a cancer diagnosis gets access to palliative care.
The bill introduces a test of best interests, which will be applied to children and young people. Concerns have been expressed about that, including in the submissions from Inclusion Scotland and others.
That has to be covered on each occasion through a site survey that we carry out and by the police incident officer who is in charge of the incident inquiry or missing persons investigation.
You are absolutely right. Concern is being expressed by the communities about how the capacity will cope with any increase in demand when the restrictions are lifted.
Around a third of those who are released from prison without a home to go to reoffend, partly because they know that prison will provide a roof over their head. Having different services sited together—for example, having mental health services sited within the housing and homelessness options team—makes a huge diffe...
Our next meeting will take place on Thursday 26 March back at the Scottish Parliament, when the committee will continue taking evidence in its inquiry into age and social isolation.
It is a stretch to make that assumption across those two tables but, for example, on page 26 we highlight the challenges that Greater Glasgow and Clyde Health Board faced with two specific specialties—orthopaedics and ophthalmology—that had high levels of the use of social unavailability codes.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
25 March 2009
No. Sites of special scientific interest and Ramsar sites are adequately covered under existing regimes, where protected sites will not be affected by the new regime.