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The Carter review on public health medicine and the white paper, "Towards a Healthier Scotland", have been taken into the Scottish health plan, as outlined in the recently published "Our National Health" document.
As we are trying to widen access and encourage people to take appropriate qualifications for degree courses, the institutions have set down strict criteria for access to professional degree courses. The requirements for medicine and law are higher than that for social work; people gauge the course they can aim for on the basis of their educational qualifica...
I hope that any student who is applying for medicine or dentistry courses for entry in 2001 will indicate on their UCAS application form whether any of their higher results are subject to appeal and I hope that they will not be disadvantaged.
I am in a profession where people want that—Sam was previously in such a profession, although medicine is self-governing rather than being driven by outside bodies.
The bill gives sufficient power, under section 7(2)(m), for the regulations to specify the period of a debt payment programme and sections 7(1)(c) and 7(2)(p) could allow for the freezing of interest and/or composition.
Out of that will come a situation wherein the true cost of providing 1 cu m of water will reduce. I appreciate that you are comparing the efficiencies that are involved in the laying of pipes and the provision of treatment services and so on, but that is an issue about what your business does.
It has also been pointed out that the powers apply only within 1,000 m of the shore. If we considered the longer term, we would wonder why we needed that kind of restriction on the byelaw powers.