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S5W-05265 Jackson Carlaw: To ask the Scottish Government when the Scottish Medicines Consortium will publish guidance regarding the use of botulinum toxin for the treatment of chronic migraine.
Richard Lyle: To ask the Scottish Government what discussions it is having with universities to encourage the study of medicine and general practice. (S5O-00221) 12.
I declare an interest as a practising NHS general practitioner and a previous head of medicine for Queen’s Park. Queen’s Park defender Charlie Fox suffered a serious knee injury during a championship game that could have resulted in an unnecessary amputation.
I do not quite understand how all this operates in practice. In acute medicine, there is a difference between somebody who has suffered a heart attack and requires to be dealt with and somebody who is having elective surgery for a knee replacement.
NHS boards and clinicians are expected to take full account of advice from the Scottish Medicines Consortium and Healthcare Improvement Scotland in the planning and provision of NHS services.
Cabinet secretary, we have a worldwide issue when it comes to medicine. We have shortages of all kinds of medicines; at the moment, the biggest shortage that I face in my practice is of dihydrocodeine and paracetamol together.
Tables 1 and 2 provide information by year for entrants to and graduates from degree level medicine courses at higher education institutions in Scotland (including pre-clinical and clinical medicine courses).