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The Scottish Executive's response describes the background and how what was originally a national service was transferred to national health service trusts and health boards in 1996.The responses from Lothian Health and Greater Glasgow Health Board say what they are doing.
Joint planning based on individually assessed needs is the only safe and sensible way to proceed and is the best way to arrive at a successful and sustainable transfer from hospital care. That is why "Our National Health: A plan for action, a plan for change" unequivocally underlines our commitment to improving and integrating planning and decision making s...
It would not take a great deal of effort or time to transfer information from an ABIS resource audit to an ABDS business plan, but we require more information and analysis this time, so that the outcome resembles a proper business plan rather than the thinner resource audit that was a feature of ABIS.
That is important for older people in any part of Scotland, but it is particularly significant for rural areas, because the transfer into care or into a home can often involve a move of many miles, away from friends, family and community.
Other problems arise from the changes at Peterhead. Protected prisoners have been transferred to Glenochil, for example. That in itself creates certain problems, depending on the prison populations.
I apologise to Nicol Stephen and to others who were present last week when we debated regional selective assistance in general and the priority plus scheme in particular, but the correlation between the motions of last week and this week will not be lost on the minister or those members. This is not a single transferable speech, but I will briefly reiterate...