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For example, people have to get someone else to make phone calls for them because health departments—even audiology departments—expect people to contact them by phone. I am sure that everyone around the table finds that shocking, but the fact is that we regularly hear such stories.In the work that we carried out to inform the submission, our members kept te...
It is crucial that people get the diagnosis, the tests and the initial contact with a specialist, and setting a sub-target by which that must be achieved within the month target might be a way forward.Bariatric surgery has been mentioned, and I welcome the Golden Jubilee national hospital’s announcement.
In the Netherlands and other countries, there are regular, almost four-monthly occasions on which people come into contact with not only the health service but with health and development services so that information can be captured and follow-up can happen really early.
When a ship is directed to port, I believe that the convention is for those on the marine protection vessel to contact the port concerned and make the appropriate arrangements.
Serious consideration should be given to using glass screens in prison visits to ensure that no contact occurs between prisoners and their visitors and thus to deny the opportunity for drugs to be passed over.One of the most serious aspects of the issue is that not only drugs but mobile phones are passed over, which can allow prisoners to communicate direct...
That will reassure some of the students who contacted me over the weekend—they were extremely worried about some of the things that they were reading in the media.
We are looking to set up a meeting for LGBT people in the faiths that have smaller memberships in Scotland and non-LGBT people in those faiths who could support them. It is proving difficult to make contact with LGBT people who are Muslim, Hindu or Sikh.
That is where the main debate has remained.Those who favour the commission’s proposals and what has been described as Calman plus—in the form of the recommendations in the Scotland Bill Committee’s report—cite the Calman consultation as the mandate for progressing the tax-raising provisions and other provisions that we are considering today.I acknowledge whole-heartedly the commission’s aim to give“prime importance to engaging with the public”,but it is worth examining in detail how successful it was in achieving that objective. A questionnaire was available online...
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