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We seek to share information and to ensure that officials work with clerks so that we can do our best to co-ordinate our activities to best meet the needs of Scotland.
On that last point, if the SAC were a public body, it would be required to operate under the best-value regime. Best value is not always the cheapest option but the option that delivers best value for the public purse.
However, there are issues for us concerning how we deliver the best health care and how we deliver the best conditions for the staff in the health service.
With respect to Helen Eadie, it is not up to Dr McNally to establish best practice; it should be up to NHS Ayrshire and Arran to do that and follow that best practice.
Hospitals do not perhaps provide the best example, as large hospitals are such immensely complex projects that they could never get off the ground without deep thought.