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We have an access initiative for the high-demand professions, such as medicine and law, which works with pupils who are interested in those professions and helps them to make the best application they can.
My final point is that the chief medical officer Catherine Calderwood’s report on realistic medicine talks about us not overmedicating the Scottish population and recognising that some things that we do do not add value.
What discussions has the Scottish Government had with the United Kingdom Government on the security of medicine supplies in the event of a no-deal Brexit?
As you will know, the regulations on the testing of drugs and medicines are difficult. Regrettably, one of the really misleading—I use that word charitably—parts of the 2016 referendum was the view, which was promulgated by Michael Gove among others, that a UK medicines agency would mean a faster, better route to medicines approval.
I am marginally surprised that the introduction of tryptophan is being allowed, because it is used in medicine as an antidepressant. However, if the EC, in its wisdom, has decided that that is appropriate, I suppose that it must be.