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The “Miscellaneous other Health Services” line in table 5.05 covers expenditure on the following areas: National Professional Advisory Committee;NHS helpline;Scottish Cancer Group;Legal expenses of haemophiliacs with HIV/Hepatitis C;Hepatitis C Ex-gratia Payment Scheme;British Standards Institute;Infant feeding survey;Misuse of drugs tribunal;Tribunal and appeal hearings;Radiological protection;Scottish Health Survey;International co-operation;Medicines...
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
19 August 2005
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S1W-31190 by Malcolm Chisholm on 13 November 2002, why four out of seven flu vaccines currently available on the NHS contain thimerosal, given that European and American regulatory authorities have recommended that vaccine manufacturers should phase out their use of thimerosal wherever possible as a precautionary measure. The Committee on Safety of Medicines...
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
22 February 2001
The community pharmacist is ideally placed to take on a supporting and counselling role each time a prescription for NRT is dispensed or each time a product is sold over the counter.In the future, if pharmacists are granted NHS prescribing rights as envisaged in the Review of Prescribing, Supply and Administration of Medicines, they will be in a position to...
Do you agree that, being less expensive, that would be less likely to lead to the defensive medicine that was mentioned in the debate in the Parliament?
We have said that we will ask the Executive, the Medicines Control Agency and the Committee on Safety of Medicines in detail about the use of the drugs in the NHS and the reasons why they are used.
Real estate renting and business activity (K) 207,000 18,000 Public administration and defence (L) 9,000 171,000 Education (M) 29,000 191,000 Health & Social Work (N) 120,000 212,000 Other Services (O-Q) 93,000 50,000 Workplace Outside UK .. ..
To ask the Scottish Executive how many responses it received during the consultation period on the Gaelic Language (Scotland) Bill.The member has provided the following Gaelic translation:A dh' fhaighneachd de Riaghaltas na h-Alba cr mheud freagairt a fhuair e rh an `m co-chomhairleachaidh air Bile na G`idhlig (Alba).