It was agreed the main objectives of the inquiry would be:
to establish how widely used by patients such alternative pathways currently are, either through referral by a GP or through self-referral;
to gather evidence from patients and health practitioners of their experience of using such alternative pathways;
to assess overall awareness of alternative pathways, both for patients and for health practitioners;
to investigate whether the most effective use is currently being made of such alternative pathways and how their use could be improved in the future;
based on the evidence, to make policy recommendations to the Scottish...