This search includes all content on the Scottish Parliament website, except for Votes and Motions. All Official Reports (what has been said in Parliament) and Questions and Answers are available from 1999. You can refine your search by adding and removing filters.
After a lot of argument between the mid-1990s and the middle part of the following decade, a system was put in place that, by and large, commanded a lot of consensus in England.
We brought in Professor Keith Matthews, who commands a good degree of clinical respect and confidence, as well as a senior manager and an experienced senior nurse to support him.
Some of the comments that the committee has heard on integration joint boards in general suggest that at the ward level—the hands-on level, if you like—the different cultures that local government and the NHS bring together can work well, but sometimes that becomes more difficult further up the chain of command. Are there comments from a joint board perspec...
We have perhaps touched on this a little bit. What is the chain of command in NHS Scotland? I am accountable to the Parliament and the cabinet secretary of the day is the responsible minister.
The principled perspective of Malta, the smallest of the EU member states, in guiding the Brexit discussions and preparations is an exemplar of what a small country can do with independence, and it shows the authority that it commands in doing the right thing in relation to its counterparts.
For example, in Edinburgh, where I was previously the commander, the large custody centre at St Leonards has nurses who are employed full time out of hours and who have access to medical information for people who are, in essence, patients.
So why did you build your model on an assumption that was explicitly rejected by the command paper? The figure of £8 billion is built on an assumption—choosing a single year—that the command paper explicitly ruled out.