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To ask the Scottish Executive what steps it is taking to ensure that every patient identified by Scottish Patients at Risk of Readmission or Admission (SPARRA) with more than two unplanned admissions receives a (a) personalised health and social care programme and (b) structured discharge plan.
Fundamentally, it is for managers to manage their services and service development. We can assist by providing guidance in the form that we have set out.
It includes a Parliamentary Bureau motion, which sets out the proposed Scottish National Party membership of the End of Life Assistance (Scotland) Bill Committee, and a business motion that revises business for Wednesday 24 February.I ask Bruce Crawford to move motion S3M-5751, on membership of the End of Life Assistance (Scotland) Bill Committee.
We will hear evidence again today from the Auditor General, Caroline Gardner, and from her Audit Scotland colleagues Russell Frith, assistant auditor general, Fraser McKinlay, director and controller of audit, and Mark Taylor, assistant director.
That might give some hope that there are people who want to go into crofting and that the population in such areas can be maintained. The programme on the Hebrides is tremendous and a fantastic advert for that part of Scotland.
Our role, as laid down in statute, is essentially twofold. First, it is to advise and assist the UK Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, either at their invitation or on the committee’s own initiative.
I suggested that, as well as taking a bullish approach to procurement, which will raise legal issues that the Government needs to resolve, we should look at regional selective assistance grants. We could say to the likes of Amazon that they should not expect to qualify for regional selective assistance grants unless ...