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In Eyemouth and Berwickshire, we are engaging with north Northumberland, because people who live and work in those areas consider it to be part of where they live.
However, research that was published in The BMJ found that terminally ill patients who live in rural and remote areas are at significant risk of being hidden and forgotten.
The seed potato issue sits in the same category as the live shellfish and live bivalve and mollusc issue—as does the fresh mince issue and the live sheep to Northern Ireland issue—which is that, in the run-up to this, no one was talking about outright bans on trade.
That work matters, but most of what health services do most of the time is much less glamorous than that, but is just as important in giving people the chance to live full and long lives. I therefore think that the vision matters.