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It is often extremely difficult to understand what a prognosis may look like where an individual clinician is dealing with a very rare condition that they may not have previously seen in Scotland.
That would be dictating now the use of future resources when there may never be any issue with the provision, and attention may be better used elsewhere.
I turn to the issue of peer review. You may have followed our debates in the committee about the evidence that we received on that subject, on which there are differing views.
The bill also includes a power to add to, otherwise amend or remove the list of offences, although I accept that it may be some time before it is appropriate to use that power.
It will probably be a suck-it-and-see exercise. Some doors may close, but others may open and it will be about finding alliances—possibly with countries that have not have been our typical bedfellows when we were in the EU.
It is way beyond my remit to say that, but we said what we said because it is relevant to understanding the situation. There may be compensations. Within the pay-as-you-earn system, in which employers ultimately capture that information, there may be the ability to catch up over time.