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Clause 87 confers a delegated power on the Secretary of State to make regulations providing for an information system in relation to human medicines, to be established and managed by NHS Digital; it is the view of the Scottish Government that the delegated power could be used for devolved purposes.
Today, I spoke to the Royal College of Emergency Medicine, the Royal College of Midwives, the Royal College of Nursing and the British Medical Association.
In 2018, in NHS England, the Getting It Right First Time programme, in its work on emergency medicine, carried out an analysis of the relationship between time spent in emergency departments and patient harm.
In addition, we should write to the Scottish Medicines Consortium to request the review of its decision to wait for the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence report to provide access, via the NHS, to the Evusheld treatment for people who have zero or limited response to Covid-19 vaccinations.
Committee covers:
health and social care integration (how social care and health work together)
medicines
NHS
primary care (including GPs, pharmacy, dental and optometry)
social care
sport and physical activity
Find out more about the work of the committee on the archive website:
Health and Sport Committee (Session 5)
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NHS, Scotland, 2024, preventative, staff coasts, staffing, absence, drugs, costs, prescriptions, medicines, budget, expenditure.
NHS in Scotland 2024 Follow up from Scottish Government March 2025.
It said:
We regard the premise of establishing a right in law to addiction treatment would be detrimental in our attempts to reduce the stigma associated with drug and alcohol issues. Singling out one area of medicine is, in our view counter productive and likely to create negativity around one patient group with different standards applied to them within t...
Coronavirus (Recovery and Reform) (Scotland) Bill: The Committee took evidence on the Bill at Stage 1 from—
Professor Fiona de Londras, Professor of Global Legal Studies, COVID Review Observatory, University of Birmingham
Professor Paul Hunter, Professor in Medicine, Norwich Medical School, University of East Anglia
Anthony Smith, Chief Executive, Westminst...
We recommend the Scottish Government review the issue of medicine related harm as a matter of urgency to ensure the safety of patients and prevent their admission to hospital.
Community Pharmacy Procurement
In the main, those pharmacists and NHS National Services Scotland (NHS NSS), who all worked within the system were supportive of the existing processes of procurement of medicine in primary care. This is done via community pharmacy seeking to obtain the best prices from wholesalers.