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However, the member makes an important point about specialists, which goes back to some of the points that Mr Rennie made about speech and language therapists.
Annual and Local Delivery Plan guidance for NHS Boards for 2025-26 highlights improving miscarriage care and implementing the Delivery Framework as a specific planning priority.
While the Scottish Government supports the use of shared care agreements where appropriate, decisions remain at the clinical discretion of individual GPs, and they are best placed to decide the best course of action for their patients.
I did not realise that I had only 11 minutes; I thought that I had 13. Perhaps I can take the member’s point later; I do hope so. The majority of people who die as the result of an overdose will previously have been treated in our national health service for a near-fatal overdose.