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Similarly, it will be for those running the NHS in Argyll and Clyde, in partnership with local people, to decide the best structure for the delivery of acute health services in their future plans.
It would reduce the borrowings, but what would be left would, at best, be the provision of second-class services, for which there would be little or no demand.
As a Scottish Conservative, I firmly believe that a thriving enterprise economy is the best way of both ensuring the prosperity of Scotland and providing our people with high-quality public services.
That is entirely sensible and wholly in keeping with the principles of best value that, as Jack McConnell announced today, will apply not only to local government but to Executive functions.
Although those services are first and foremost about respite, they are also about working with people to give them the knowledge about how best to use the combination therapy drugs available.
Perhaps there is an overwillingness to imply that the private sector model is always the best. We can learn a lot from the work that is being driven forward by the public sector.