To ask the Scottish Executive what plans it has to include prescribing rates of new treatments for psoriatic arthritis in its programme of public annual reviews of local NHS boards. The Scottish Medicines Consortium(SMC) conducts rapid assessments soon after their launch of the costs and benefitsof medicines such as etanercept, an anti-tumour necrosis factor drug, which hasbeen shown in clinical trials to offer a new option for people with psoriatic arthritis.NHSScotland is expected to take account of the advice from the SMC and ensure thatrecommended medicines are made available to meet clinical need.The agendas for NHS boards’ annualreviews are set by me as Minister for Health and Community Care, taking accountof key health care issues of national and local importance and the overall progressof individual boards.