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She mentioned the Gorbals Healthy Living Network, which spoke to the committee, and told us that the Scottish Association for Mental Health said that exercise is a huge contributor to ensuring good mental health.
However, 140 children are still being admitted annually to those units—that represents 140 lives that cannot be properly turned round, because those units are totally inappropriate for children.
In the future, many more of our older people and a much higher proportion of our overall population will live with long-term conditions than has been the case until now.
This is a generalisation, but in Scotland we benefit to a degree from the fact that most of the population lives on or close to the coast, and the water is up in the hills and gravitates towards populations.
The Prime Minister, Gordon Brown, must now live up to his word and address the problems in Scotland or face the imminent wrath of its rural communities.
He argued that change could be brought about by providing for hybrid meetings and enabling MSPs to work in ways that fit in more around their lives, including around childcare, caring responsibilities and where they live.