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The blueprint is key to delivering the Scottish Government’s commitment that those in Scotland living with IBD are able to access the best possible treatment and support.
Our commitment, not just to the patient whose case Kezia Dugdale cites but to every patient across the country, is to provide the best-quality treatment as quickly as possible in every part of the country.
We are waiting for other information to come forward that will enable us to best set out a work programme, but it would be helpful for the committee to meet and discuss how we can be most effective.
That means that we need to invest in people’s potential. We need to give them the very best start in life, the best opportunities in school and access to further and higher education and to lifelong learning.
In 1922, Professor John Macleod from Aberdeen, working with two other outstanding scientists, Dr Banting and Charles Best, discovered insulin, and in 1923 Macleod and Banting won the Nobel prize for medicine, which was shared with Best.