BAILLIE TO SCOTTISH GOVERNMENT: SORT OUT FLU PROGRAMME AVAILABILITY
Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton Constituency, has today called on the Health Secretary to ensure…
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Carer’s Allowance Supplement (Scotland) Bill: Stage 3
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On a point of order. I am afraid that I lost my connection. I would have voted for amendment 7.
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Carer’s Allowance Supplement (Scotland) Bill: Stage 3
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Get it right, because you are wrong.
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Carer’s Allowance Supplement (Scotland) Bill: Stage 3
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It is no longer the case that we have a fixed budget. The Scottish Government can and does raise taxes, so surely Mr Macpherson should correct his narrative.
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Carer’s Allowance Supplement (Scotland) Bill: Stage 3
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I know that the minister was not here at the time, but does he accept that it took the Scottish Government a year to mitigate the bedroom tax because it chose not to let Westminster “off...
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Health and Social Care (Winter Planning)
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I thank the cabinet secretary for advance sight of his statement, but it feels like a sticking plaster for a much more profound problem. What additional bed capacity is being planned for our...
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Autumn and Winter Vaccination Programme
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The demands on the NHS are currently at crisis point, and delivering the flu vaccination programme and the Covid vaccine booster programme at pace will be critical. Will the cabinet secretary...
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Scottish Ambulance Service
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Does the cabinet secretary agree that that was not a random request, as was suggested by Clare Adamson, but came from ambulance staff? Unite the union and its ambulance workers said that that...
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Scottish Ambulance Service
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Will the member take an intervention?
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Scottish Ambulance Service
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I am grateful to the cabinet secretary. The Government did, of course, create the NHS Louisa Jordan, so the staffing capacity must have been there for it.
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Scottish Ambulance Service
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Will the cabinet secretary give way?
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Scottish Ambulance Service
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I say to people: do not get sick, do not need an ambulance and do not need accident and emergency services in Scottish National Party-run Scotland, because in each of those areas the Government...
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Vaccination Certification Scheme (Exemptions)
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I am, as are my constituents, delighted that QR codes are in place. However, one constituent of mine who travelled to France on 5 September found that, unfortunately, the QR code did not work, so...
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Scottish Ambulance Service
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On a day of new records, and not good ones, the health secretary has been missing in action, refusing press interviews about ambulances for five days, which—I think he would...
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Covid-19 Update
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I am sure that the First Minister agrees that testing and contact tracing remains an essential tool for suppressing the spread of the virus. In the past few weeks, the number of completed contact...
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General Practitioner Services
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More and more people are going private. In effect, the Government is privatising the dental service by the back door. We all value the primary care team, which has GPs at its heart. I think that...
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General Practitioner Services
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Yesterday, we debated the extent of the crisis that is being experienced by the NHS, with services struggling to meet demand and waiting lists at a record high. Today, we are talking about GPs....
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Cervical Screening (Update)
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The matter remains, unfortunately, a huge scandal. Concerns were raised in 2015, 2016 and 2017. In 2016, there were 29 inappropriate exclusions and in 2017, there were 11 inappropriate...
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Health and Social Care
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It is absolutely right that we express our deepest gratitude to those who work in health and social care, for all that they have done not just during the pandemic but, equally, before it. They...
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Covid-19
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I have had several recent cases of people who have applied for a self-isolation grant but eight to 11 weeks later are yet to receive any support. That puts enormous pressure on household...
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Vaccination Passports
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This week is freshers week. Students from the UK and all over the world will be congregating in pubs, cafes and restaurants, and, for the next two weeks, students from outside Scotland will be in...
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