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Dental Services (Work Models) To ask the Scottish Government what its response is to claims by the British Dental Association Scotland that “plans to return national health service practices to pre-Covid models of work may devastate dental services”.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
11 November 2019
To ask the Scottish Government what steps it is taking to reduce the number of cases of (a) pre-term births, (b) stillbirths and (c) maternal deaths attributed to (i) pre-eclampsia, (ii) eclampsia and (iii) HELLP syndrome.
The draft order has been initially laid under a super-affirmative procedure, which means that it is required to go through pre-legislative scrutiny that involves a formal consultation period of 60 days before the Parliament will be asked to agree to it.
The specialist intervention service contains psychology input and a team that uses a suite of interventions and works with young people from pre-admission all the way through their journey at Rossie.
I think that it is also safe to say that the UK Government’s intention to reduce its civil service numbers to pre-Covid and pre-Brexit numbers will inevitably have a consequence for the devolved Governments across the UK and their settlements.