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To ask the Scottish Executive whether the planned payments to the building contractor for the new Southern General Hospital provided by NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde comply with best practice. I refer the member to the answer to question S3W-31487 on 25 February 2010.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
17 February 2010
It is for each NHS board to decide how best to utilise these funds. No specific budget is allocated for integrated care and emergency services associated with winter pressures and the influenza A (H1N1) virus.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
4 February 2010
We are working with partners in the public sector and the third sector to ensure that the way in which services are commissioned, including the application of community benefit clauses, leads to the best possible services for those that need them.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
27 January 2010
I am happy to confirm that I am meeting with representatives of the Thalidomide Trust in February to open discussions on the best way to allocate these additional funds.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
4 September 2009
The Scottish Government is working with the social housing sector to better share best practice in order to support the development of more efficient and sustainable procurement of both new build and services.
This is a complex issue and we continue to listen to representations on the best regime. The aquaculture industry is vitally important to Scotland and in order to help it develop sustainably a strategic approach is required.
Officials have asked sportscotland through its partnership manager network to establish as best they can the number and range of schemes in place in local authorities which offer free or discounted access to their swimming pools.
I intend that this should be a quick exercise and that the review is published as soon as practicable after this consultation. We will then be best placed to consider the implications of the findings and recommendations in the review, alongside a number of other issues.
The Action Plan will take as its themes the dimensions of quality in Better Health, Better Care and will support the NHS boards to make best use of the skills and knowledge of the pharmacy workforce.