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The screening programme for breast cancer is expected to save about 40 lives a year, and the screening programme for cervical cancer is expected to save about 26 lives a year.
Mine is not a remote or rural area. I live in a semi-urban and urban area. In some of the semi-urban to urban areas we have suggested that there could be some linkage.
Sections 2 and 26 specifically state that long-term plans should be made for people living at home, particularly those who are living with elderly parents.
We are separating out personal care from domestic care in the case of someone living at home and from housing and living costs in the case of someone living in a care home.
The children and young people who live in those areas are much more likely to be offered drugs than children and young people who live in other areas, and they will consistently be offered drugs.
Recommendation 4 of the report asks that a task force be established to advance the independent living agenda in Scotland and that the work be monitored by the Scottish ministers.
I help adults with special needs to make the change from the accommodation in which they live to independent living and I go to sheltered housing, lunch clubs, probus clubs and rotary clubs.