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Treatment, specifically for cancer, can be complex and often involves the use of a combination of medicines which would make it difficult to identify cost per treatment.
Indeed, this SNP Government conceived of and implemented the Scottish graduate entry medicine programme—ScotGEM—to train the next generation of rural GPs, including across Dumfries and Galloway.
Many operators in my constituency say that their reserves have been wiped out because the medicine tariffs that are paid by NHS Scotland have failed to keep pace with the rapidly increasing costs of medicine, resulting in pharmacists having to, in effect, subsidise national health service medicines out of their own pocket.
In secondary care, hospital electronic prescribing and medicines administration—HEPMA—is being rolled out across Scotland and has already been implemented in 13 NHS boards.
She should speak to the brave staff on the front line and try to tell us that it is not a crisis. The Royal College of Emergency Medicine has said today that we are 1,000 acute beds short.
People should have access to the medicines that they need without charge and without having—as some people used to have to do—to make invidious choices between taking their medicines and feeding themselves.
I am delighted that Royston Youth Action is also benefiting, and I will be delighted to visit it, just as I will be delighted to visit A & M Scotland with Mr Doris tomorrow.