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He is the man who has worked in partnership with the Parliament’s Health and Sport Committee to develop a vastly improved system of access to new medicines in Scotland for end-of-life and orphan and ultra-orphan conditions.
That initiative means that, following rigorous training, optometrists can prescribe licensed eye-related medicines to patients under the NHS without the patient’s having to visit their general practitioner or an ophthalmologist.
It is what Joe Stiglitz means when he prescribes moving to a green economy as the medicine for ailing economies. Unlike the UK Government, which is prevaricating over energy policy, an independent Scotland will nurture this opportunity.
I recognise that survival with congenital heart disease is a success story of modern medicine, and I welcome the establishment of the managed clinical network.
The smallest remnants of alcohol from the night before, the ingestion of cough medicine or even the use of mouthwash could put a driver over the limit, so that is not appropriate.
The declaration called on nations to put a higher emphasis on preventative work, early diagnosis, management and access to adequate care, and to ensure that treatment and medicines are available for all those who live with diabetes.
Will the cabinet secretary guarantee that any new medicines that the Scottish medicines consortium approves will continue to be funded no matter what happens to the prescribing budget and the money that is applied to it?
She was prescribed a full month’s worth of medication, and she died after taking an overdose of that prescription medicine. Ms McKenzie’s simple ask was that a parent or a guardian should know of such a diagnosis and prescription.