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To ask the Scottish Executive what progress has been made in implementing the Calman report on specialist medical training that Scotland should have graduate entry to medical school.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
1 December 2004
Proposals on the future of the Scottish Dental Access Initiative will comprise part of the Executive’s response to the Modernising NHS Dental Services in Scotland consultation which we hope to make shortly.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
17 November 2004
The Scottish Executive is currently reviewing the provision of infertility services in NHS Scotland, including waiting times. I anticipate that this information will be made available to the public by the end of 2004.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
10 November 2004
To ask the Scottish Executive how many podiatric surgeons are currently being trained in Scotland. Twenty students have registered for the first year of the recently introduced MSc in the theory of podiatric surgery being run jointly by Glasgow Caledonian University and Queen Margaret University College.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
10 August 2004
The Services Engineers forthe Holyrood project, RMJM (Scotland) Limited, are responsible for the designof all mechanical and electrical services, of which air conditioning is one element.
Employment issues within further education colleges, which are autonomous bodies in terms of the Further and Higher Education (Scotland) Act 1992, are solely for the colleges themselves to address.
To ask the Scottish Executive when it will exercise its power under section 7 of the Housing (Scotland) Act 2001 and publish regulations to establish minimum rights for homeless people living in hostels and other types of short-term accommodation.
The initiatives to addressskills gaps in the construction industry are being handled by ScottishEnterprise in partnership with the Sector Skills Council, Construction-Skills,which I launched in Scotland, with industry partners, earlier this month.