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The hubs aim to reduce the number of appointments that patients are required to attend and provide rapid access to diagnostics. There are currently seven such hubs across NHS Scotland.
Our aim is that, by 2026, there will be 50 per cent more rehab beds in Scotland, giving a total of 650. We have established a rapid capacity programme as part of the recovery fund, which will expand existing services and establish new services.
Members will recall that, as a result of the committee’s work, the Scottish Government conducted a rapid review of each health board to check the current arrangements for ensuring access to medication for detainees.
It is linked to some of the work on the rapid action drug alert and response—or RADAR—system to identify issues with regard to the supply of drugs and to give people a greater understanding of what they are purchasing and, therefore, what they are using.
It is linked to some of the work on the rapid action drug alert and response—or RADAR—system to identify issues with regard to the supply of drugs and to give people a greater understanding of what they are purchasing and, therefore, what they are using.
One of the things that we have done is to fund organisations to develop work in that area. That involved rapid reorganisation, from which we learned lots of lessons, including how to hang on to the emerging groups and organisations and make them sustainable.
I think that the sequence of data over the past two to three weeks has substantiated the rapid acceleration of cases, which has been driven by the omicron variant.
They say, in their words, that they are running out of time and that they need to see change happening now. If rapid testing can be introduced for students, why cannot the Scottish Government prioritise rapid testing for those desperate families?
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Date answered:
21 October 2019
In the event of a No Deal EU exit, the Scottish Government is also committed to creating a £7 million Rapid Poverty Mitigation Fund to help councils target money at the people who need it most.