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If we include that wording, there is a danger that we dilute our focus on island communities in section 3(2) et alia. We are legislating to make the lives of the people who live on islands better.
In the report that I published last week, one common theme was that some measures that are used to hold health boards to account on acute service targets and the annual financial targets are not clearly linked to the overall aim of having everybody able to live happier and healthier lives at home or close to home.
As a society, we have to relearn that. We all started off our lives being completely dependent on others and some of us will end our lives being completely dependent on others.
Compensation will not make the disturbance go away. People’s lives will still be disturbed by the operation; indeed, many people’s lives will be seriously disturbed by it.