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The Government’s focus is to ensure the best possible conditions for the charity sector to thrive and support our communities, and that is the aim of the bill.
Certainly, an acute psychiatric ward or accident and emergency department is not the best place to look after them. The police are left holding the baby as a result.
We want the commissioner in Scotland to be a clear, strong voice for patients—someone who does not have to look over their shoulder and worry about whom they might upset within the system and someone who says it as they see it and who is constantly thinking about the best interests of patients. We want the same in England.
As someone with that lived experience, I am reassured to have a minister responsible for mental health who understands the value in asking the people who know best where the work needs to be done.
The committee will consider the application at its next agenda item, and the clerks will notify you in due course. I wish you all the very best for the rest of today. Thank you very much, convener.
Nobody will force you to be vaccinated, and nobody will inject you without your consent, but the best place to have those conversations is within your clinical team or in the vaccination centre.
I reiterate a point that I have made throughout the debate: health services are best when they are delivered locally, are easily accessible and serve local communities.