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We have just passed last year's anniversary year of the national health service, the original concept of which was of a service for all that was free at the point of need. The free prescription policy lives up to that principle and will deliver it in practice.Secondly, Annabel Goldie says blithely that many people with long-term conditions have access to fr...
Houses in multiple occupation are a long-established concept in housing legislation, and one of their defining characteristics is that they comprise living accommodation and not holiday accommodation.
National Health Service (Patient Transport) To ask the Scottish Executive what measures it is taking to facilitate national health service patients living in Scotland's remotest areas accessing transport to hospitals and clinics.
Parental Substance Misuse (Child Protection) To ask the Scottish Executive what plans it has to ensure that all children living in families where there is parental drug or alcohol misuse are properly assessed and protected.
If that starts from the minute we walk out of here, this Parliament will have achieved something.15:57 We live in a time when, increasingly, new drugs are coming on stream that can not only prolong the lives of patients with metastatic cancer and other terminal conditions, but can enhance their quality of life so tha...
The main remit of the group, which has formally met five times to date since September 2009, is to: Consider the actions necessary to progress Independent Living for disabled people, and to support their involvement in this process.
The indicators which make up the SIMD are chosen because they are measures of deprivation regardless of where a person lives. Discussions with rural stakeholders have demonstrated that rural disadvantage isn''t about small area concentrations of multiple deprivation so amending or creating a new SIMD for rural areas would not help and we do not intend to d...