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Convener, I assure you, Mr Stewart and the rest of the committee that my ethos with regard to the exporting of best practice remains in place. That is what we will aspire to do.
In her first answer to Iain Gray, she said that the current proposal on the waiver is not best practice. Is it only not best practice, or is it a breach of the human rights conventions?
One is looking for a system that is so structured that one feels reasonably confident that it is not in the best interests of organisations to look to breach the rules; it must be in organisations’ best interests to look to comply.
The important point on that is that our health system and our approval process through the Scottish Medicines Consortium try to achieve the best and fairest price. There is a responsibility on the pharmaceutical industry to offer the best price.