LTCAS - people not patients

Where the text of a motion is lengthy only the title is included. For full text and full list of current motions please see the Scottish Parliament website

S3M-5789 Rhona Brankin: Midlothian Young People’s Advice Service

S3M-5788 Bill Kidd: Glasgow to Host 2010 Cerebral Palsy European Football Championships

S3M-5787 Jamie Stone: Highland Rheumatology Unit in Dingwall—That the Parliament notes the high quality work being carried out at the Highland Rheumatology Unit in Dingwall; recognises that this unique service is vital to many people right across the Highlands; is deeply concerned, however, that a review of the service by NHS Highland would potentially reduce the service drastically and believes that this would seriously impact on locally accessible patient treatment and care, and, accordingly, urges the Scottish Government to liaise with NHS Highland to ensure that this service is maintained at its current level.

S3M-5784 Dr Richard Simpson: International Rare Disease Day—That the Parliament welcomes the third International Rare Disease Day on 28 February 2010; notes that there are over 6,000 rare diseases affecting approximately 300,000 people in Scotland; supports the focus of this year’s Rare Disease Day on the importance of research for the majority of rare disease patients who are without adequate treatment or a cure, and joins Rare Disease UK in calling on the Scottish Government to build on the strong research and development base in Scotland to develop a framework to encourage further research and development for rare diseases and develop a strategy and implementation plan for their diagnosis and management.

S3M-5769 Margaret Mitchell: Diabetes UK Scotland’s Measure Up Road Show

S3M-5765 Christine Grahame: Disability Sports Development Officer Cut Condemned

S3M-5754 Mr Frank McAveety: Haggeye in the Parliament—That the Parliament was pleased to welcome the presence in the Parliament last week of Haggeye, the forum for blind and partially sighted young people in Scotland, as part of the Community Partnerships Project, which also involved Multi Ethnic Aberdeen Ltd and Action For Children; congratulates Haggeye on its enthusiastic engagement with the project through an ongoing campaign to raise awareness of important issues for blind and partially sighted young people in Scotland, most recently by promoting RNIB Scotland’s What Would You Lose campaign in the Parliament, and calls on parliamentarians to continue to show support for initiatives such as Haggeye.

S3M-5752 Robert Brown: End the Tax on Breathing—That the Parliament welcomes the End the Tax on Breathing campaign initiated by the Pulmonary Hypertension Association UK...

S3M-5737 Shona Robison: The Draft Community Care (Personal Care and Nursing Care) (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 2010—That the Health and Sport Committee recommends that the draft Community Care (Personal Care and Nursing Care) (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 2010 be approved.

S3M-5705 Des McNulty: Freeze out Fuel Poverty for Cancer Patients

S3M-5702 Linda Fabiani: Pioneering Anti-HIV Research in East Kilbride—That the Parliament congratulates East Kilbride company Controlled Therapeutics on forming a partnership with US non-profit reproductive health and HIV/AIDS prevention agency, CONRAD, to develop drug delivery technology that could help women to protect themselves against the transmission of HIV infection; believes that this innovative research has the potential to improve the health and welfare of women worldwide and particularly in the developing world by empowering them to take action against HIV infection; wishes Controlled Therapeutics and CONRAD every success in this work, and looks forward to hearing their assessment of progress in the project at the end of 2010.

S3M-5696 Marilyn Livingstone: Love Maggie’s Day

S3M-5678 Marlyn Glen: Scotland’s First Dedicated Cancer Research Centre Launched in Dundee

S3M-5676 Irene Oldfather: Dementia 2010, Better Funding for Alzheimer’s Research

S3M-5660 Helen Eadie: Familial Arrhythmia Network for Scotland

S3M-5655 Christine Grahame: Hepatitis C Trust Opens Office in Scotland

S3M-5654 Robert Brown: Glas-goals—That the Parliament congratulates the Evening Times for its health campaign, Glas-goals, and its three targets of walking or running a million miles for Glasgow, stubbing out a million cigarettes for Glasgow and shedding half a million pounds in weight for Glasgow over the next year; notes that Glasgow has a poor health record and that 48% of males and 29% of females exceed weekly recommended alcohol limits, that 190,000 Glaswegians smoke and that, by the end of 2010, nearly a third of the population will be clinically obese; believes that campaigning newspapers like the Evening Times can have a tremendous effect in changing attitudes and lifestyles, and wishes Glas-goals all success in its challenge in the year ahead.

S3M-5648 Jackie Baillie: Free Prescriptions for Cancer Patients

S3M-5640 Karen Whitefield: We Want Our Missing Millions—That the Parliament welcomes the We want our missing millions campaign by the organisation, for Scotland’s Disabled Children; notes that the campaign seeks to secure £11.3 million from the Scottish Government for Scotland’s disabled children, representing the final third of £34 million intended to support disabled children and young people, and believes that the Scottish Government should take steps to ensure that local authorities spend their share of the £11.3 million on support for disabled children and young people in their areas.

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