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Given that only half of the patients who are referred from accident units to Glasgow's institute of neurological sciences are currently allocated a bed, does the minister agree with Professor Graham Teasdale, president-elect of the Society of British Neurological Surgeons, that one in four of the 60 patients who die in the unit each year do so because of de...
How long someone lives and how soon they die can be a postcode lottery. It is a known fact that middle-class, wealthy women more often get breast cancer than working class women from deprived areas, but working class women from deprived areas are more likely to die from the disease.
Rather than the answer that the First Minister gave to Nicola Sturgeon, is the truth not that Tony Blair's failure to help to tackle the grotesque inequalities between rich and poor in Scotland—which see men in Glasgow's east end die 30 years before people in Bearsden—his insistence on Thatcherite privatisation of public services and the decimation of the m...
I will be interested to see what alternative the Executive produces in its bill. I will not die in a ditch over that point, but there are key parliamentary approvals in the latter part of the legislative process that we must stick by and seek to achieve.
We also know that some of the people who die of drug-related causes, although not all of them, have taken drugs for many years and their general health has deteriorated as a result.
We also intend to encourage more and more young people to get involved as the years go by, so that there is a turnover of young people and the initiatives do not die. Is the First Minister aware that even a quick glance at social inclusion partnership expenditure for youth projects shows an underspend of more than £0.5 million over the first two years of th...
There, too, they are seeking to implement the vision of an inclusive society.However, in India, the caste system militates against such inclusiveness. Born a Dalit—an untouchable—you die a Dalit, and nothing you achieve can alter your caste.
I was about to say that I am grateful to Rosie Kane for raising such an important issue and doing so in such an impassioned and constructive way—until her last comment, which was frankly ridiculous. People sometimes die as a result of hospital infections.