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It is important to note that it is essentially an industrial disease and that, as Mary Scanlon said, by the middle of the next decade the number of people who suffer from it is likely to drop.
I am slightly confused about an answer that Dr Forsyth gave to Mary Scanlon. If I heard Mary Scanlon right, she asked whether an over-the-counter headache remedy would have the same effect on someone taking it with water as it would on someone taking it with caffeine and Buckfast.
She intends to make an announcement towards the end of the year.Oatridge College's name has already changed; the draft order will just tidy the legislation. I share Mary Mulligan's concerns. I recently had a private visit to the Scottish Agricultural College at Auchincruive.
We are very much sighted on some of the concerns that have been raised by Mary Scanlon and Rhoda Grant.I do not think that there should be concerns about implants, which Mary Scanlon also spoke about.
That could have come out of the process to a much greater extent if a broader group of organisations had been represented around the table. I do not share Mary Senior's view that there are widespread differences of opinion on the issue.
Many people were not having their medication reviewed and—Mary Scanlon touched on this—medication was being prescribed without the person being seen by a doctor.
I was struck by the number of members who commented in similar terms on the failings of the skills strategy. Mary Mulligan said that it is fine as far as it goes.