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.£15 million of flexible funding for local authorities moving into level 4 to support the needs of people in their communities who do not have support networks and are struggling with the new restrictions or guidance. This may be access to food or medicine or other emerging needs that result from an area entering level 4.£7 million to further help with fuel...
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
27 March 2019
We are prioritising activity in areas that will be heavily impacted by Brexit such as the economy, transport, food and drink, medicines, agriculture and the rural economy.
In February the Scottish Government launched a public information website to provide important advice around issues such as transport, food, medicines and citizens’ rights. It is available at www.mygov.scot/euexit .
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
29 August 2018
The new Graduate Entry programme (ScotGEM) will introduce 55 undergraduate places from Autumn 2018 with a particular focus on general practice and rural medicine. ScotGEM includes a ‘return of service’ bursary of £4,000 per year.
The key purpose of the guidance was to achieve consistency of approach across all NHS boards in Scotland in relation to management of IPTRs for such medicines for individual patients. The Scottish Government recognises that NHS boards may make different decisions on IPTRs for medicines as these are considered locall...
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
9 October 2012
IPTRs allow clinicians to put forward a clinical case for an individual patient to receive a medicine within its licensed indication which has not been recommended for routine use by the Scottish Medicines Consortium (SMC).