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That work has been carried out by the Institute of Occupational Medicine, which is in Edinburgh, and the budget for it is just over £50,000 for an 18-month gradual project.
The Cass review is robust, independent research, which, importantly, is informed by the views of people with lived experience. Gender medicine is built on “shaky foundations”, and it is deeply worrying for child welfare.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
25 February 2014
General practitioners and other clinicians prescribe according to the British National Formulary and report reactions to prescribed medication (including withdrawal symptoms) through the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA).
A report compiled by Evidence Ltd. in 2009 rated Scotland as ‘strong’ in areas of clinical research, biological science, mathematics, physical science, medicine, social sciences and engineering.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
16 January 2012
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S4W-02090 by Nicola Sturgeon on 3 August 2011, whether additional funding will be provided to support the provision, maintenance and use of hyperbaric chambers in Orkney following the review of hyperbaric medicine. I refer the member to the answer to question S4W-04699 on 16 January 2011.
It has been suggested that it could end up being between £60 million and £80 million, because the £40 million will provide new medicines for X number of patients, but other new medicines will arrive.
That will add to the burden.We have not addressed the issue of the availability of new medicines. Again from parliamentary questions that I have put, I know that the Government expects that that will not affect in any way the Scottish medicines consortium's determination on cost grounds of new medicines becoming available for prescription, some of which are incredibly expensive.
The Emergency Department Capacity Management Guidance, issued in partnership with the Royal College of Emergency Medicine in September, will support NHS boards to develop local definitions, measures and thresholds appropriate to their different physical layouts and size of units.