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Thank you very much for that. I have no more questions, convener.

Thank you very much for that, but what I am trying to get on the record is whether you think that, if those criteria are not in place in a general hospital setting where repairs are being carried out, the procedure will not be as successful. Are you saying that mesh repairs would not be suitable for the patients who do not meet the criteria?

Good morning. The sections of Audit Scotland’s report on staffing and recruitment state that it would be “challenging to achieve” the plans to recruit and retain staff due to the historical difficulties that have been faced by the NHS in the past. Is the cabinet secretary confident that the national workforce strategy will be able to meet the workforce availability and workforce wellbeing needs of the NHS?

I was just coming to that. How will the implementation of the strategy be monitored, evaluated and reported?

How have Brexit and the United Kingdom immigration policy affected the ability of the NHS to recruit additional staff? The cabinet secretary mentioned that the NHS has recruited 200 nurses internationally. Has the NHS faced any difficulties in being able to do that?

In a conversation at the weekend, when I was socialising with friends who are all front-line NHS staff, at the mention of Audit Scotland’s call for more data their faces fell. They feel that the collection of that data and the time that they have to spend on that distracts them from front-line services. There is a balance to find there, because if Audit Scotland is wanting more and more data, the backlog in front-line services will just get bigger and bigger. How do we get that balance?

I will not tell you what I was celebrating.

We could write to Derek Todd at the Scottish sensory hub, who is a lead BSL consultant with the Health and Social Care Alliance Scotland.

The clerks suggest that we write to the Scottish Government to ask how the petitioner can engage with the development of the national strategy on ending intimate and sexual violence against men and boys. We should also write to Police Scotland to ask about its approach to gender-informed domestic abuse training, and to the stakeholders that are outlined in the petitioner’s recent submission.

Thank you.