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We are concerned at the gap between the Scottish Government's expectations and impression of what is being delivered regarding social prescribing and realistic medicine and what is happening in GP practices.
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Date answered:
11 March 2026
This ensures a consistent approach to dosing and assessment of treatment response across the UK’s metabolic services.The pathway specifies a starting dose of 10 mg per kilogram of body weight per day for the period of responsiveness testing.The decision to prescribe a medicine, and which medicine to prescribe, ...
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
18 March 2025
To ask the Scottish Government how many applications to prescribe medicines have been made under the Peer Approved Clinical System (PACS) Tier Two process in each NHS board in each year since the accompanying guidance was issued in March 2018.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
17 March 2025
To ask the Scottish Government how many applications to prescribe medicines have been granted under the Peer Approved Clinical System (PACS) Tier Two process in each NHS board in each year since the accompanying guidance was issued in March 2018.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
14 November 2023
NHS Scotland has robust systems in place to manage medicine shortages when they arise and anyone affected by this issue should speak to their usual clinical team.
The SRP chair, Jim Savege, was present at the SGoRR(M)—Scottish Government resilience room ministerial—meeting on Wednesday 2 November and provided a brief update.
For clarity and consistency, we have labelled companies under “supermarket” as big national supermarket chains and discounters, such as Aldi, Asda, B&M, Co-op, Iceland, Lidl, M&S, Morrison’s, Sainsbury’s, Tesco, and Waitrose.
Members are advised to lodge amendments in good time before the beginning of a Stage and as early as possible during the day. (G) = Government Bill; (M) = Member’s Bill; (C) = Committee Bill; (P) = Private Bill; (H) = Hybrid Bill.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
16 March 2020
Members are advised to lodge amendments in good time before the beginning of a Stage and as early as possible during the day. (G) = Government Bill; (M) = Member’s Bill; (C) = Committee Bill; (P) = Private Bill; (H) = Hybrid Bill.