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My officials are working closely with medical defence unions in Scotland and the British Medical Association to seek the best solution for all GPs working in Scotland.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
10 November 2017
Consultation is underway on a wide set of proposals and will conclude at the end of January 2018. We will consider how best to take forward proposals, including the shape of legislative action, in the light of responses to consultation.
This information is not held by the Scottish Government. The best source of this information will be the individual local authorities as the employers of these staff.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
21 September 2016
Health and Social Care Partnerships are responsible for commissioning palliative and end of life care services that best meet the needs of their local population.
The publication of the citizens assembly report and ministers responding to it at almost exactly the same time as COP presents a really good opportunity to show how those come together and showcase our best practice—to share globally our ability to learn as we go forward and to include others.
We have to proceed with initiatives and schemes without having the clarity of whether the funding will come from additional consequentials. The best example of that is the self-isolation payment.
A two or three-minute answer is probably not the best means of articulating your response to that challenge, as set out by the Scottish Government in quite some detail in its memorandum, which is published on the committee’s website, but perhaps you can give a brief response now.
I will add to your comments about Liz Smith and say that she has left big boots to fill, but I will try my best. I have no formal declaration to make, but I voluntarily declare that I taught English for two years.