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This is due to the impact of continued increasing demand on services, persistently high inflation on costs including energy, medicines, and pay related pressures, in addition to the impact of the pandemic and on-going COVID-related costs.”
We are also taking a range of actions to encourage graduate entry medical students to go into rural settings through the Scottish graduate entry medicine—ScotGEM—programme. A range of work is under way to increase further recruitment to general practice in Scotland, as well as a range of measures to encourage people to work in our rural areas.
I am going to link this to CPGs, which is relevant to what we have been discussing today. I am a member of the CPG on medicinal cannabis, which is an issue that affects a constituent of mine.
Members are advised to lodge amendments in good time before the beginning of a Stage and as early as possible during the day. (G) = Government Bill; (M) = Member’s Bill; (C) = Committee Bill; (P) = Private Bill; (H) = Hybrid Bill.
The 2017 National Clinical Strategy for Scotland also introduced the concept of "realistic medicine". Realistic medicine aims to put the person receiving health and social care at the centre of decisions made about their care, and aims to encourage shared decision making.
It has been suggested that it could end up being between £60 million and £80 million, because the £40 million will provide new medicines for X number of patients, but other new medicines will arrive.
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Date answered:
20 February 2020