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We have taken action to support women and health professionals to learn more about menstrual health issues such as endometriosis, the symptoms and treatment options but we know there is still a long way to go.
Responsibility for professional development sits with individual healthcare professionals, employers, Public Service Delivery (PSD) Scotland, the royal colleges and other professional bodies.
Women are often treated dismissively by doctors due to gaps in their training on conditions like endometriosis, polycystic ovary syndrome, ME and long Covid.
The Health Secretary should speak with medical bodies to uncover why training uptake has been so low and what can be done to increase the number of GPs taking part in this training.
The SNP has a responsibility to boost participation in this important scheme and make it as easy as possible for GPs to take part.
This woeful uptake shows there is a gap between rhetoric and delivery when it comes to women’s health.
Approving Jackdaw was just common sense.
By electing Lorenzo, voters in Portobello/Craigmillar have demanded radical change in Scotland’s capital.
What's more, it looks like the only reason we are being told that Scotland should have two health boards is so that the SNP can dodge having a vote in Parliament.
Portobello-Craigmillar is now the first ward in Edinburgh to be represented by two Green councillors.
For the first time ever our capital has elected a Scottish Green councillor at a by-election, showing the failing Labour administration that Edinburgh demands better.
The imperative now is that action is taken to learn every lesson and that no stone is left unturned in that case.
I stand by my categorisation of the family C case as a catastrophic failure.
Midwives across Scotland are being left to their own devices in ensuring babies born under a surrogacy arrangement receive uninterrupted care and treatment.
My position is clear — we should follow our EU partners in Spain, France and Germany in banning surrogacy and at the very least we should work in this place to prevent the harms caused by international surrogacy.
The growing number of babies being born as a result of surrogacy arrangements poses a serious issue that we as legislators must address.
Our ambition, and our intention, is that more people in Scotland get a home that they can afford.
If John Swinney is serious about finally reforming the public sector, then he needs to rein in salary costs which are continuing to spiral.