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The Scottish Fiscal Commission considered the financial impact of those amendments in its December 2024 forecasts and deemed them to have an “immaterial” and “negligible” impact, respectively.
(S6O-04526) GPs are essential to the delivery of high-quality, sustainable general practice. In November 2024, I published a plan with a suite of 20 actions to improve GP recruitment and retention.
He was then reappointed to the board in November 2024. In January 2025, he was appointed as interim chair, and today we are being asked to confirm his appointment as chair for a further four years, which will take us to 2029, unless I am mistaken.
According to the most recent available data, between October 2023 and September 2024, there was a 9.5 per cent increase in the number of procedures undertaken in the national health service.
We will raise the issue with Lloyds Banking Group at the next meeting. In October 2024, I convened a cross-party round-table event on access to cash and banking services in Scotland.
We could write to the Deputy First Minister to seek an update on any further action that the Scottish Government is taking in respect of the action points that were mentioned in her correspondence of 5 December 2024. We could also write to the leader of Glasgow City Council to ask that she meet the Fornethy survivors to discuss their continuing request for ...
As a consequence of the reforms that we enacted in the Children (Care and Justice) (Scotland) Act 2024, we have been able to free up accommodation in HM Young Offenders Institution Polmont to accommodate more prisoners.
In the past 12 months, there has been an increase in the number of operations performed in the NHS. In the 12 months to June 2024, outpatient activity increased over the previous 12 months.
The cabinet secretary added during her statement to Parliament earlier this month that “the updated national guidance goes as far towards a national ban as I am currently able to go”.—Official Report, 3 September 2024; c 70. We have received a submission from the petitioner that welcomes the updated guidance but raises concerns that leaving the decision...
The submission also highlights the positive economic impact of the holiday park and campsite sector. Here we are in May 2024, going into the summer season, when I imagine that such issues will be at their most prevalent.