Parliamentary questions can be asked by any MSP to the Scottish Government or the Scottish Parliamentary Corporate Body. The questions provide a means for MSPs to get factual and statistical information.
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To ask the Scottish Government how it (a) ensures that doctors are in posts that are appropriate to their grade and (b) avoids doctors in a lower grade covering higher grade posts due to a lack of suitable staff.
To ask the Scottish Government how it ensures that medical students are given posts in the NHS on qualifying.
To ask the Scottish Government whether it plans to suspend the use of transvaginal mesh implants.
To ask the Scottish Government whether it plans to suspend the use of all transvaginal mesh implants until further research into the safety and efficacy of these procedures is carried out.
To ask the Scottish Government whether it will reclassify transvaginal mesh implants to heightened risk status.
To ask the Scottish Government whether it is monitoring legal cases in the USA and elsewhere about the use of transvaginal mesh implants.
To ask the Scottish Government what steps it is taking to suspend the use of transvaginal mesh implants to treat stress urinary incontinence.
To ask the Scottish Government how many compromise/settlement agreements it has been consulted on since the Cabinet Secretary for Health and Wellbeing's new procedures were set out in the Scottish Public Finance Manual in October 2013.
To ask the Scottish Government, further to the Cabinet Secretary for Health and Wellbeing's letter to the Public Audit Committee dated October 2013, Managing early departures from the Scottish Public Sector, what guidance it has issued to NHS boards regarding the use of compromise/settlement agreements and confidentiality clauses.
To ask the Scottish Government how much each NHS board has spent on dermatology waiting list initiative clinics in the last two years.