Furthermore, in preparing its staffing plans for this period, the Scottish Ambulance Service has been mindful of the potential demands which millennium street parties and other events, whether licensed and approved or not, might place on the Service's resources.In terms of the preparedness of the NHS in Scotland as a whole, we have established a Year 2000 National Co-ordinating Group to ensure that there is no material disruption to the delivery of health services over the Millennium period.