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We have undertaken a range of national communications and engagement activity to further encourage uptake, as well as supporting Health Boards and other partners with local activity.
There is always a process to be gone through to get an MCA approved, and the local authority absolutely has the scope to alter it throughout the process on the basis of any input that it might receive.
We also need a Parliament that is willing to say that good intentions are not enough.As the bill completes its passage, my challenge to ministers is simple: let us get beyond virtue signalling. Let us get into the practical work and make the legislation mean something.
I think that the aim of section 19 is simply to find language to ensure that an activity is a bona fide community activity rather than something that is masquerading as a community activity.
To make it to an appointment you need to get one of the earlier ferries of the day and to get home again you need to ensure that you get on the afternoon or evening ferry.
In 2020-24, nationally, in-patient and day-case activity was more than 7.4 per cent more than in 2023, and new out-patient activity was 2.4 per cent higher.
It is difficult to design eligibility systems so that people who should not get the benefits are screened out, but those who should get the benefits are screened in and allowed to get them.