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Health, Social Care and Sport Committee
Meeting date: 16 January 2024
Gillian Mackay
That is okay. Thank you.
Health, Social Care and Sport Committee
Meeting date: 16 January 2024
Gillian Mackay
It is sometimes difficult to achieve a shift to preventative spend when there is acute need in the system. I am pleased that a consultation on a public health supplement, which my party has long backed, has been proposed through the budget. Do you believe that such a measure could help to drive preventative spend?
Health, Social Care and Sport Committee
Meeting date: 16 January 2024
Gillian Mackay
Good morning, cabinet secretary. Preventative spend is often difficult to track and quantify, particularly once it goes into health board budgets, and the health benefits often take a long time to show up in population health data. How does the Scottish Government track and evaluate preventative spend? Do you believe that the data needs to be improved if we are to further target preventative spend?
Health, Social Care and Sport Committee
Meeting date: 16 January 2024
Gillian Mackay
The cabinet secretary and I have had many conversations about vaping and its impact on health. Given how quickly novel products can affect health, what impact are they having on preventative spend budgets? Is the way in which we allocate those budgets flexible enough to adapt if those products are having an in-year impact on health?
Health, Social Care and Sport Committee
Meeting date: 19 December 2023
Gillian Mackay
Who makes the decision on where those clubs come into that structure?
Health, Social Care and Sport Committee
Meeting date: 19 December 2023
Gillian Mackay
Good morning. What benefits could be realised in remote and rural areas from having improved sharing of information technology systems such as electronic prescribing, single patient records and more joined-up access to patient information?
Health, Social Care and Sport Committee
Meeting date: 19 December 2023
Gillian Mackay
Do colleagues online have any thoughts?
Health, Social Care and Sport Committee
Meeting date: 19 December 2023
Gillian Mackay
I put the same question to Julie Mosgrove.
Health, Social Care and Sport Committee
Meeting date: 19 December 2023
Gillian Mackay
Project Brave was implemented around six years ago, refreshing a previous strategy. Does the SFA plan to undertake an evaluation of the successes, failures and perceptions of project brave?
Health, Social Care and Sport Committee
Meeting date: 19 December 2023
Gillian Mackay
Given the amount that supporters spend on tickets and on going to matches and so on, should their wants and their convenience in relation to scheduling of matches not be given priority over broadcaster demands? People have had issues with getting to and from matches because of matches being changed due to broadcaster demands.