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LOCAL GROUPS CONGRATULATED ON RECEIVING £220K OF LOTTERY FUNDING

Jackie Baillie has congratulated seven local groups after they netted a total of almost £220,000…

LOCH LOMOND GROUP AT GREAT TASTE OF SCOTLAND EVENT HOSTED BY ASDA IN PARLIAMENT

Jackie Baillie sampled Loch Lomond Group’s products during a special ‘Great Taste of Scotland’ event…

CONGRATULATIONS TO WEST DUNBARTONSHIRE COMMUNITY FOODSHARE ON NATIONAL LOTTERY AWARD

Jackie Baillie has congratulated West Dunbartonshire Community Foodshare after the charity was awarded £27,500 from…

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Jackie in Parliament

Delayed Discharge

Scottish Parliament debates

—who is the worst health secretary since devolution. Let me make one final plea to the First Minister. [ Interruption .] Two weeks ago, she gave a commitment to look into the case of...

Delayed Discharge

Scottish Parliament debates

—has gone backwards on her watch, and that is shameful. As if that were not bad enough, the First Minister gave us Humza Yousaf—[ Interruption .]

Delayed Discharge

Scottish Parliament debates

Since the First Minister took office, more than £1 billion has been lost to delayed discharge. At her very first First Minister’s question time, I raised the matter of cancer treatment...

Delayed Discharge

Scottish Parliament debates

6. To ask the First Minister what action the Scottish Government is taking to tackle the reportedly high levels of delayed discharge, which are estimated to have cost over £161 million in...

Historical Adoption Practices

Scottish Parliament debates

I, too, thank the First Minister for her formal apology and, on behalf of the Scottish Labour Party, I echo her remarks. We believe that an estimated 60,000 Scottish mothers were compelled to...

International Long Covid Day

Scottish Parliament debates

I am grateful to the minister for giving way. Research from SPICe has identified that £21.7 million in Barnett consequentials has come to the Scottish Government as a result of NHS England...

International Long Covid Day

Scottish Parliament debates

I think that we all welcome the £10 million that the Scottish Government is providing, but that money is being provided over three years, and it is not the £21.7 million that the...

International Long Covid Day

Scottish Parliament debates

The member raises an important point. My understanding is that one in five people with long Covid has sought private medical treatment, because they are not getting tests or treatment from their...

International Long Covid Day

Scottish Parliament debates

I very much agree. That reminds me of the Scottish Government’s suggestion at the time that we should cut off the bottom or the top of doors to increase ventilation. We need to be serious...

International Long Covid Day

Scottish Parliament debates

I absolutely agree with Alex Cole-Hamilton’s contention, but he should have added that there is no consistency in provision. The services that are provided very much depend on where someone...

International Long Covid Day

Scottish Parliament debates

Tomorrow— Wednesday 15 March—is international long Covid day. According to the Office for National Statistics, more than 175,000 people in Scotland have long Covid. Three years on...

Hospital Waiting Times

Scottish Parliament debates

Earlier this week, BBC Scotland revealed that one in five people had paid for private medical care in the past 12 months. Let us be clear that those are people who are on lengthy waiting lists...

Covid Recovery Strategy (Third Sector Organisations)

Scottish Parliament debates

Covid Recovery Strategy (Third Sector Organisations)

Scottish Parliament debates

Long Covid Scotland tells us that one in five Covid sufferers have been forced to go private for tests and investigations because there is a lack of access to services on the national health...

General Practices

Scottish Parliament debates

I am afraid that the First Minister’s Government is not on track, and Audit Scotland has said that the Government will miss the target of increasing GP head count by 800. However, it is...

Nursing (Number of Student Applicants)

Scottish Parliament debates

The 24 per cent reduction in the number of people applying to study nursing is the biggest drop in applicants for nursing in any part of the UK and the lowest figure at any point in the past five...

Budget (Scotland) (No 2) Bill: Stage 3

Scottish Parliament debates

I start on a note of consensus and welcome the additional money for Creative Scotland and for teachers’ pay. The budget will shape the next SNP leader’s priorities in Government....

National Care Service (Scotland) Bill

Scottish Parliament debates

The First Minister has been sent a letter by the Scottish Trades Union Congress and Common Weal, setting out their serious concerns about the National Care Service (Scotland) Bill and asking for...

Social Care

Scottish Parliament debates

I suggest that the minister listen. Scottish Labour would also remove non-residential care charges, as the Feeley review recommended, in order to provide financial relief during the cost of...

Social Care

Scottish Parliament debates

No. We have already set out where the money to pay £12 per hour could be found. That would provide almost double the £150 million that it would cost to implement the NCS policy, so...