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To ask the Scottish Executive whether the Scottish Telemedicine Action Forum has evaluated why the use of videoconferencing in GP surgeries is not more widespread. To date, there has been no systematic evaluation of why videoconferencing facilities in GP surgeries are not more widespread.
To ask the Scottish Executive when it will provide substantive answers to questions S1W-4449, S1W-4450 and S1W-4451 on Scottish trust ports, and why it has not answered them to date. These questions were answered on 23 March.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
25 November 1999
To ask the Scottish Executive how many senior managers have taken early retirement or have had their contracts terminated in each Health Board area in each financial year from 1993-94 to date. This information is not held centrally.
We will be happy to support the minister's amendments 144 and 145.Amendment 207, which is in my name, is important. The date in my amendment—31 January 2001—is the operative date.
When they went to the service to talk about that, they were told that the consultant was on holiday for three weeks and that they should use heroin on top of their prescription for two weeks but should stop using it before their clinic appointment, or else it would be caught in their urine test and they would be put off the programme.
People have to be flexible and to understand such feelings.For some of our members with mental health problems, getting insurance to go travelling or on holiday abroad can be almost impossible because the cost is exorbitant.