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The report The Effectiveness of Public Health Nursing: A Review of Systematic Reviews was commissioned by the Chief Scientist Office to inform the Review of the Contribution of Nurses, Midwives and Health Visitors to Improving the Public's Health.
To ask the Scottish Executive what discussions it has had since the foot-and-mouth disease outbreak with Her Majesty's Government regarding the regulations controlling the importation of meat and meat products and whether greater control will be put on visitors bringing meat and meat products into Scotland in the light of the outbreak.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
26 April 2000
A calculation was made in 1989-90 of the costs incurred on an all-Scotland basis for the care of those overseas visitors referred here for specific treatment or who fall ill while here on a visit.
The Inland Revenue is not involved. We will credit graduates with having paid us the £2,000 when they discharge their liability in the spring after completion of their courses.
My difficulties with this section have often been to do with whether points are expressed negatively or positively. Paragraph 334 could also be expressed in a more positive way.