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As with public bodies in general, we are looking for better co-ordination and alignment of SDI's activities with our international framework, so that we work together to achieve more of the team Scotland approach that I mentioned.
The issue is not only absorption capacity, but co-ordination. I hope that we can come back to that during our discussion.I am new to Scotland, but I understand and support the links with Malawi because I visited Malawi when I worked for the European Commission.
We have had great success with the smoking ban, and a similar co-ordinated approach to alcohol and drugs would make the biggest single difference to the health service, the prison service and our social work departments.
This was invaluable in ensuring close co-ordination with the vets in the field and helped to address emerging issues quickly.Although there have been successes we must not be complacent.
The then Commissioner for Science and Research said that if countries co-ordinate their efforts“we will see a major step ahead”.About 7.3 million people in the EU have some form of dementia—a number that is expected to double over the next 20 years, as life expectancy increases.
The dialogue that will exist between the Government’s resilience operation and the strategic co-ordinating groups is crucial to ensuring preparedness in all parts of the country.