This search includes all content on the Scottish Parliament website, except for Votes and Motions. All Official Reports (what has been said in Parliament) and Questions and Answers are available from 1999. You can refine your search by adding and removing filters.
Revenue costs of the SBBS, since introduction on 1 April 2008 are as follows - Year Revenue cost of SBBS (£m) 2008-9 73 2009-10 108 2010-11 117* 2011-12 129* Note:* Estimate.
The retail sector changes all the time, but we have recognition in emerging retailers, such as B&M Bargains, and we are seeking recognition in Aldi and Lidl; although those are big retailers, there were not as many of them a few years ago.
I want to go back to general practice. The Scottish graduate entry medicine programme—ScotGEM—has been really successful for Dumfries and Galloway with regard to retention.
In addition, we know that the health service, in particular, is struggling to regain pre-pandemic levels of productivity. The number of treatments and medicines that are delivered for a given amount of funding is still below where it was before the pandemic.
At that inaugural meeting, it was absolutely the view of Commissioner Šefcovic and the European contributors that the TCA was working and that that had been demonstrated by the negotiations on medicines. Do you share that opinion? Do you think that the bill can be withdrawn and that we can move forward to negotiate on the areas, as highlighted by Mr Camero...
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
4 August 2015
The initiative has a number of recruitment goals including increasing fill rates by 5% by 2016 in hard to fill programmes in emergency medicine, general practice and psychiatry.
Also, guidance to further strengthen the safe and effective use of new medicines across the NHS in Scotland was issued on 13 February 2012 under SGHD/CMO(2012)1.