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I spoke in the same debate in 2017, and much has changed in the past five years, with a variety of new treatments having been approved by the Scottish Medicines Consortium for active relapsing remitting MS and primary progressive MS.
There was the campaign that I fought with others for access to orphan-condition pharmaceutical medicines, which had previously so often been overlooked.
The change will make it possible for people who cannot be vaccinated, who are not yet fully protected, or who have received a vaccine that is not recognised by the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency, to be able to attend venues that are covered by the scheme.
With effect from Monday 22 November, we will recognise vaccines that are on the World Health Organization’s emergency-use list, as well as those that are approved in the UK by the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency.
That includes, for example, recruitment of more community nurses to assist with diagnostic tests and chronic-disease management, physiotherapists in the community to treat musculoskeletal issues, as well as pharmacists to help with repeat prescriptions and medicine reviews. In this year’s programme for government, we committed to publishing a paper setti...
My piece of the puzzle is the provision of clinical advice, as led by the World Health Organization and reflected not only in each continent through, for example, the European Medicines Agency in Europe, but in the clinical collaboration UK-wide and in Scotland.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
1 December 2009
I refer the member to the following table: Date College Minister 23 August 2007 Stevenson College Kenny MacAskill MSP, Cabinet Secretary for Justice 20 September 2007 Clydebank College Fiona Hyslop MSP, Cabinet Secretary for Education and Lifelong Learning 28 September 2007 Central College Glasgow Fiona Hyslop MSP, Cabinet Secretary for Education and Lifelong Learning 11 February 2008 Dumfries and Galloway College Rt Hon Alex Salmond MSP, First Minister 3 April 2008 Sabhal M...
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
4 November 2008
Lord Malcolm) G Moynihan QC R Martin QC S Woolman QC (the Hon Lord Woolman) G Bell QC R Anderson QC J Wolffe QC C MacNeill QC L Murphy QC J Mure R Crawford A Hardman G Hawkes B Heaney A Poole D Ross D Sheldon S Smith K Springham D Thomson J Cherry A Duncan I Ennis K McBrearty E MacKenzie M O''Carroll A Summers A Devlin A McSporra...
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
1 August 2007