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However, it is about utilising the available resources to the best effect. The balance can be more towards treatment in the community, where patients can be supported in their home, or in a more homely setting.
We want to ensure that that budget delivers the best for the environment. If we do not know where to target the schemes and the prescriptions, we are not getting the best for the environment.
We look specifically at diversity and equality through our programme of work on best value assurance, which we deliver on behalf of the Accounts Commission.
Local commanders and local officers know their communities best and they know their partners, whether they are in health, social work, the third sector or community groups.
I have a national portfolio and I am tasked with ensuring that, as best we can, we have a consistent approach to engagement with local and national partners.
We do not have a limit to our ambition, but nor are we saying that we must get to a certain spend. We want to get the best possible content and to make sure that we have a competitive environment in Scotland in which we deliver the very best programmes.
The health service budget is increasing overall, and in order to keep that going we must make sure that the money is well spent and used to the best effect. That is what we are doing.