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I very much understand the situation that Jackie Baillie and Willie Rennie outline, but the HIS report regime will give us that full picture. My colleague Marie Tidball MP has started a campaign about the experience of disabled people during maternity on the back of the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine report finding that disabled women are 44...
Macmillan Cancer Support warns about a “cancer care gap” as the numbers of people with cancer rise but that is not matched by an increase in the workforce. Marie Curie tells us about the lack of palliative care staff and even a lack of training for generalist staff about end-of-life care.
I put on record the work of two of them—the Marie Curie hospice at Stobhill in my constituency and the St Margaret of Scotland hospice in Clydebank, which looked after my father with great dignity, love and respect in the last days of his life.
The Housing (Scotland) Bill has the potential to address some of the drivers of homelessness, such as those highlighted by Marie Curie in its briefing for the debate.
An assessment was made and a care package agreed, but there were no carers to deliver it. Marie Curie did what it could, as did the family, but the growing burden on Pat’s husband became too much and he was admitted to hospital, utterly broken.
We cannot rely on people responding to consultations; we have to go out—I use the royal we, because I am talking about the Government and researchers—and actively engage people in those conversations, as we need to hear about their lived experience. As Mary Brennan said, in the committee’s first evidence session on the bill, we will “learn so much from” the...