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It is difficult to direct this question to one particular person. Given how desperate the nursing situation is, what would be a realistic timeframe for recruiting people from other countries and getting them into the workforce?

Good morning, minister.

My question is in two parts, and is about ensuring that children get good-quality food in school. What standards are in place to ensure that children get good-quality food and that there is not an unhealthy option that is always taken up? What is being done to ensure that the areas around schools maintain healthy eating areas?

I am glad to hear that one of the aims is to get cars off the road. One of the big problems is with commuting to work, because the traffic means that everyone just sits there.

I will use the Queen Elizabeth university hospital as an example of a greater issue that exists around Scotland. Public transport to get people to the hospital is not good enough. There are no cycle lanes for people to use to get to the hospital, and there are no shower facilities for people who cycle in.

How can we ensure that other places around Scotland have the infrastructure that is required to stop people driving into work? How can we help big hospitals such as the Queen Elizabeth university hospital?

When I was doing my GP shift yesterday, I had a conversation about DNACPR, whci stands for “do not attempt cardiopulmonary resuscitation”. That is not one conversation; it is the start of a conversation that has to be gone back to on multiple occasions.

I visited the Prince and Princess of Wales Hospice, which is providing amazing care. It even has beds for young adults. Because that is an independent hospice, a patient who wants respite but whose funding is being controlled by the council is not able to access care at that hospice. They can only go to a hospice that is part of a big chain and they cannot access the amazing care that that hospice provides.

Would you be able to look at that, to stop that from happening and to allow even people whose councils control their respite funding to be able to choose where they go for respite care?

My question is for Dr Thomson and Dr Buist. As we know, 85 per cent of all patient contact happens in primary care, and given that demand, there will be patients who will quite clearly be desperate to go to A and E instead. However, they might then be redirected from A and E back to their GPs. Is there a set of patients who are simply being passed between primary care and A and E, and if so, what can we do to stop that happening?

Convener, I should just place on the record that, earlier, I was listening to the meeting online, so I was able to hear the minister.

Thank you. Will you also be writing to and contacting everyone who had mesh implants in Scotland to highlight the scheme and say, “If you received your mesh here and are eligible because you’ve had private surgery to remove it, we will reimburse you.”? I did not see that as something that you are doing to promote the scheme.

I should first of all put it on the record that Dr Jamieson was the clinical supervisor for my own work.

I have a question for Dr Lamont about costs. I know that we are talking about reimbursement here, but what do you think the indicative costs will be for women going to the NHS, Spire Healthcare in Bristol or the United States?

Thank you for your response to the convener’s questions, but I would say that it is not an either/or issue. It would be nice if we could add to the list those women who had their mesh implanted here but who had to pay privately for the surgery to get it removed after they had moved away from Scotland. After all, it was the NHS in Scotland that implanted the mesh in the first place, and those women should be reimbursed for any out-of-pocket expenses. I understand from Greig Chalmers that you have not as yet been contacted by anyone in that respect, but even if reimbursement in those circumstances could help just one woman, it would be good for us to do it.

Would there be a difference between those who are directly employed and those who are—