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Although the use of T3 is a trial, it is extremely important for those 10 per cent of people who do not do well on T4—when I say “do not do well”, I mean that they might die if they are not treated on T3; they certainly would not be functioning and would be extremely disabled.
That is not counting the people who were admitted and did not die. So we have a problem.To me, climate change is a health problem, which is why I am so interested in it, and why I think that health should be embedded.
I thank Liz Smith for her tenacious and never-say-die approach to the legislation process and the way in which she is meticulous with every single point.
That is what I would like to see, I think, but it is not a hill that I am willing to die on. It is just an intuitive feeling that the difference between the digital and the traditional physical world matters when it comes to good faith and the scrutiny that we expect people to have done.
Just think about that for a second: mums, babies and toddlers gone and whole families wiped out, and still, every single day, people die. In 2025 alone, on average,10 children have been killed every single day.
It is important that people have their say, but, when an inquiry looks at issues going back decades, many people who were involved will die during the course of the inquiry, so they will never see justice done at any level.
Such situations are very personal, but we envisage people usually taking comfort in being with their loved ones when they die. There needs to be clarity on whether the medical person is to be there, or what happens when they are not but family members are in the room when the self-administration takes place.
The reason why we introduced annual health checks for people with learning disabilities is the evidence that they suffer some of the poorest health of any population in Scotland and die, on average, 20 years younger than the rest of the population, very often of preventable diseases.
On how Crown Estate Scotland views the issue— 10:15 I want to pick up on that point, because if a million animals that live on land were to die—chickens or pigs—there would be an outcry.