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Have you come across any particular concerns about prisoners' diets and health in relation to rehabilitation? Offenders have poor health and die much younger than other people. As you know, there is a significant problem with people who come out of prison dying quickly from drug overdoses—we have discussed that locally.
Will those standards ensure what the First Minister desires, which is that"No child should ever again die because of structural failings in support services",or do you feel, as some in the Opposition feel, that the standards are still too vague?
During the period of just under a year when I worked there, we had one single visit, from relatives of a patient who was seriously ill and expected to die. It is on that basis that I return to Willie.
At least the proposed system would provide comfort to some people that we are taking their concerns seriously. The other side of the coin is the issue of back watching, to which one or two submissions refer.
Paragraph 5 makes it clear that Scottish ministers may be involved in the removal of members of the commission. Paragraph 7(1) states:"The Commission is to pay to its members such remuneration as the Scottish Ministers may in each case determine."
NHS board information on the numbers of ASCs is published regularly on the acute hospital care website along with other waiting times and waiting list information.