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I, along with my colleagues who are involved in the process, have detailed face-to-face contact with a large number of organisations on a routine basis.
The Beatson action plan that was published at the end of last year talks of headhunting through established contacts with other European and international centres.
While we may sit in our ivory towers, they are in direct contact with patients every day. They work tirelessly to help others for comparatively little reward.
People need to know whom they can contact and information needs to be publicised in places where people will see it casually, without having to look for it very hard.
We also have fairly regular contact with local authorities, environmental health departments, the health boards and consultants in public health medicine.
If they are to be consulted properly, they have to be sought out; an effort has to be made to make contact from the centre. What force would guidance have to ensure that local authorities made the extra effort that is needed to contact these groups?
We are implementing a major project for the integration of information systems around the criminal justice system in Scotland. From my contact with prosecutors and other people in criminal justice in other parts of the world, I have learned that Scotland is ahead of many other countries on such integration.
We were told that there was close contact between the partners and that they had a good relationship, but the committee finally got agreed figures only through persistent questioning.
There were 834 responses, of which 730 were postcard or e-mail contacts organised by WWF. There were 104 substantive responses, of which only 50 addressed the questions posed by ministers on coastal and marine national parks.
However, even if that were the case, with the best will in the world people who are addicts would continue to come into contact with the criminal justice system from time to time.