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It is not the same as in larger towns and cities, where people can simply transfer to another part of the community and take a bus to visit their friends or go to work. Rural communities are much more sensitive to ill-thought-out proposals such as this one.
By risky, I mean that when we build a visitor attraction such as Our Dynamic Earth, there is no guarantee that X thousand people will visit it per annum. The network is in risk-taking mode.
Scotland faces unprecedented demographic developments over the coming years, with a change in the balance between youth and age. In 25 years' time, for example, 26 per cent of the population will be over 65 and 44 per cent of the population will be over 50.
It is simply not acceptable that constituents who visit a consultant, having worried about that visit for weeks, turn up only to find that their records are no longer there but have been lost.Information technology is not just about better administration; it can give Scottish patients access to the expertise of the b...