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If the advice changes, we will listen. However, we must follow the best scientific and clinical advice that is available to us, which is exactly what we are doing.
Option three would provide the highest level of efficiency for the lowest cost and would therefore be in the best interests of providing the best possible crime detection service to Scotland’s police forces and the wider public at optimum cost.
It is true that academics and their research will go where they can access the best departments and work with the best people, but it is a mistake to think that that will happen only within the UK.
Given the challenges of the need to grow social care, delayed discharges, or a growing ageing population, for example, we need to decide on the best place to invest our finite resources.
That is why we agreed to work with Glasgow City Council to consider how best to address the needs of vulnerable homeless people as part of the council’s current strategic review of homelessness services.
NHS Tayside’s performance in that area is among the best in Scotland, with more than 98 per cent of patients meeting the four-hour accident and emergency standard every year since 2008-09.