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Official Report Meeting date: 21 March 2013

Meeting of the Parliament 21 March 2013

For example, every day 800 women around the world die from pregnancy and childbirth complications.

Official Report Meeting date: 30 October 2025

Meeting of the Parliament 30 October 2025 [Draft]

—Neil Gray 16:41 Today, we are being asked to write what is in effect a blank cheque to make it easier to choose to die than to live. I do not believe that voting to do that is a neutral act—it has consequences.

Official Report Meeting date: 23 January 2025

Meeting of the Parliament 23 January 2025

Those reviews will now include consideration of the safety of the prisoner’s physical environment and the means by which they were able to die by suicide. That was a specific recommendation made by Sheriff Collins.

Official Report Meeting date: 17 November 2021

Meeting of the Parliament (Hybrid) 17 November 2021

This is the 10th anniversary of pancreatic cancer awareness month, with world pancreatic cancer day being marked on Thursday. More than 9,000 people die of the disease across the UK annually.

Official Report Meeting date: 4 February 2025

Health, Social Care and Sport Committee 04 February 2025

It offers an element of control and comfort over how they die when death becomes inevitable and imminent ...

Official Report Meeting date: 13 August 2020

Meeting of the Parliament (Hybrid) 13 August 2020

Does she share my concern that the population of hen harriers across the United Kingdom appears to have fallen by 24 per cent since 2004, that 72 per cent of satellite-tagged hen harriers seem to have been killed on grouse moors and that hen harriers are 10 times more likely to die or disappear over grouse moors than they are in other locations?

Official Report Meeting date: 21 September 2017

Meeting of the Parliament 21 September 2017

In March, my wife and I were told that our unborn daughter would die due to very premature labour. Six months on, baby Rosa, who was not given a chance, is now doing well at home.

Last updated: 7 November 2024

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S6M-14784: Clare Adamson: Pancreatic Cancer Awareness Month and World Pancreatic Cancer Day 2024— That the Parliament marks Pancreatic Cancer Awareness Month, which takes place every November, and World Pancreatic Cancer Day, which takes place on 21 November 2024; believes that, for decades, pancreatic cancer has been left behind, receiving just 3% of the UK cancer research budget; considers that an increase in long-term investment in such research could transform persistent low survival rates; welcomes Pancreatic Cancer UK’s recent announcement of nearly £600,000 in funding for research taking place in Scotland into early diagnosis and treatment for the disease; acknowledges that pancreatic cancer is tough to detect and diagnose and understands that, once diagnosed, only three out of 10 people get any treatment, the lowest proportion of all cancer types; acknowledges that half of people die...

Last updated: 10 April 2024

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S6M-10801: Roz McCall: Basic Care Standards in Palliative Care - That the Parliament notes the support for the provision of palliative care services in a place of the patient's choosing, wherever possible; understands that the vast majority of people who die each year in Scotland require palliative care services, including in the Mid Scotland and Fife regio...