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The Health Technology Board for Scotland will issue a Comment on the technology appraisal by the National Institute for Clinical Excellence on Entanercept and Infliximab for rheumatoid arthritis which is expected to be issued in March 2002. S1W-22262
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
28 January 2002
The Executive expects to receive the Scottish Law Commission's report by the end of March. We will then consider whether any legislation is necessary in the light of the commission's recommendations.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
10 January 2002
That is wholly consistent with the conclusions of the Health and Community Care Committee's report on the MMR vaccine, which was published last March. S1F-01535
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
12 December 2001
The Executive is currently reviewing the action NHS Boards have taken to follow the guidance issued in March on good practice for fitting hearing aids.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
31 October 2001
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will respond to Point of Concern 3 in the Association of Visiting Committees for Scottish Penal Establishments Annual Report for the year ending 31 March 2001 on raising awareness and what action it is taking to raise public awareness of the existence and functions of prison visiting committees.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
15 August 2001
The number of police officers in Scotland reached an all time high in March 2001. The funding made available to the police service, which is more than a third higher in real terms than ten years ago, is intended to sustain this level.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
13 August 2001
In his report following an inspection of the prison in March of this year, HM Chief Inspector of Prisons commented: "The medical arrangements at Kilmarnock are being maintained at a high level and we have no major concerns."
Their work is feeding into the Economic Impact Assessment Group which Ross Finnie set up in March 2001 to inform the Executive's response in providing immediate hardship relief and planning for longer-term recovery.
Ministers are acting to improve children's safety through a number of initiatives. In March I announced a multidisciplinary review of child protection, which will focus on improving systems right across Scotland.