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The Scottish Government fully supports the appointment of the Groceries Code Adjudicator (GCA). Scottish Ministers have long pressed for the need for an independent GCA to police the Groceries Supply Code of Practice.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
17 August 2012
For example, he has mentioned that the bill “would have the result that other than in cases where the presiding legal member is the chair, decisions in land registration, title conditions, electronic communications code and disputed compensation cases would all be subject to internal appeal.
Another practice that we have started with our reports is that we have agreed with GPs in Tayside the coding that it would be beneficial for them to record after we have done diagnostic assessment, so that we can look at that data.
When we needed instant genomics testing when a nurse came back from Africa, lab workers woke up and found the code quickly, with the nurse being treated in London.
When somebody is admitted to a secondary care facility, they are coded—a diagnosis is made—so that we are able to articulate well about people who have a severe and enduring mental illness, for example, or who require very specialised care.
We were the first service to have a code of ethics for policing. Our chief constable came out and said openly that systemic issues in Scottish society inevitably come into the service when we recruit from our communities and try to represent them in our workforce.
We have set up a purchase order—a separate project code—for the money so we will be able to ring fence it and get proper approvals to say whether a proposal fits the capital expenditure criteria.
The chief medical officer and his colleagues helpfully suggested that codes are used for registrations that may allow for that information to be captured in a way that respects and acknowledges the sensitivity of what we are discussing.