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The sector investing up to £250m of funding to establish a new Offshore Wind Growth Partnership to work with UK businesses and SMEs to address the UK’s productivity gap, increase business competitiveness, drive supply chain innovation and support the UK’s export drive.
With hydrogen, for example, the UK Government has started to develop hydrogen business models and has identified funding to support the first set of blue and green hydrogen projects coming to market.
Since October 2020, we have invested £324,500 in funding via the Framework to projects which specifically improve the health and wellbeing of people with epilepsy in Scotland.
Workforce and resources
Both Scottish Government ministers and NHS witnesses highlighted persistent workforce pressures as a key constraint on delivering consistent healthcare and recovery support in prisons, including staff shortages and challenges in recruiting full multidisciplinary teams.
Committee reports
Date published:
7 September 2020
Sandy Brindley, of Rape Crisis Scotland, indicated a lot of providers state there is "hardly any demand for an out-of-hours service" yet described how this is contradictory to many survivor experiencesiOfficial Report of the Health and Sport Committee - 17 March 2020, COL 51.
Increasing workforce capacity and developing regional networks of professionals available to undertake forensic medical examinations is key to ensuring forensic medical examinations can take place in a timely manner across all health boards.