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Does the minister agree that, despite the substantial investment that the Executive announced about this time last year, far too many people have to wait far too long for access to the best and most appropriate hearing services?
Because of the Health Committee's recent work and the fact that we do not know how many people are in our hospitals, it is almost imperative that we deal with chronic illnesses.
In its response, Enable stated:"The subsequent difficulty has been fully implementing these far reaching proposals. Whilst recognising that many were medium to long term plans, the Scottish Executive has never produced a clear action plan with targets and timetables which we were led to believe would emanate from ‘The Same as You?'
I would have thought that for the consultation to be effective there should have been more responses from the general public. How many responses from the public would you expect such a consultation to receive?
That remains the committee's key question on the issue.I also cannot work out from the Executive's response how many patients in Scotland—the response uses the word patient sparingly—get access to repeat prescriptions through means other than the traditional visit to a general practitioner, and how many patients have...