Motion
Improving Access to Primary Care
S6M-12214.3 · Amendment · lodged by Gulhane, Sandesh
Lodged on
20 Feb 2024Heard / answered on
21 Feb 2024Watch the chamber session on SPTV · lands on the meetings recorded on 21 Feb 2024
As an amendment to motion S6M-12214 in the name of Alex Cole-Hamilton (Improving Access to Primary Care), after "emergency" insert "; notes with deep concern that the number of GPs per thousand people has decreased significantly in the last decade; recalls that investment in new treatment centres was central to the Scottish Government's NHS Recovery Plan and its promise to improve primary care access; condemns the recent decision to cancel investment in new projects for undermining these promises; strongly urges the Scottish Government to adopt the proposals put forward by the Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party in its paper, Modern, Efficient, Local: A new contract between Scotland's NHS and the public, including, critically, the pledges to recruit an additional 1,000 general practitioners and to digitise primary care appointment bookings".
Lodged by
Gulhane, Sandesh
alone — no additional MSPs have signed on.
No division on record.
Either the chamber agreed this motion without a vote, it was withdrawn before debate, or it predates 2011 — vote-by-vote records only run from then.
In the Official Report
Debated in chamber — 5 contributions reference this
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The Deputy Presiding Officer
LD
Chamber
· 21 Feb 2024 · Meeting of the Parliament 21 February 2024
I advise the chamber that there is no time in hand for this debate or the subsequent one, so members will have to stick to their speaking time allocations. I call Sandesh Gulhane to speak to and move…
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Sandesh Gulhane
Con
Chamber
· 21 Feb 2024 · Meeting of the Parliament 21 February 2024
A modern NHS would embrace innovation and introduce the latest medical equipment. In rural and remote areas, that would include mobile screening services, and we would take diagnostics—such as lung s…
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The Presiding Officer (Alison Johnstone)
NPA
Chamber
· 21 Feb 2024 · Meeting of the Parliament 21 February 2024
There are nine questions to be put as a result of today’s business. I remind members that, if amendment S6M-12214.2, in the name of Neil Gray, is agreed to, amendment S6M-12214.3, in the name of Sand…
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The Presiding Officer
NPA
Chamber
· 21 Feb 2024 · Meeting of the Parliament 21 February 2024
I remind members that, if amendment S6M-12214.2, in the name of Neil Gray, is agreed to, amendment S6M-12214.3, in the name of Sandesh Gulhane, will fall. We come to the vote on amendment S6M-12214.…
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The Presiding Officer
NPA
Chamber
· 21 Feb 2024 · Meeting of the Parliament 21 February 2024
Therefore, amendment S6M-12214.3, in the name of Sandesh Gulhane, falls. The next question is, that amendment S6M-12214.1, in the name of Paul Sweeney, which seeks to amend motion S6M-12214, in the …
Amendments and how the chamber decided
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S6M-12214Original motion19 Feb 2024 · Motion For Debate · Cole-Hamilton, AlexThat the Parliament notes the Scottish Government’s longstanding commitment to recruit an extra 800 GPs by 2027 and the views of bodies, including the Royal College of General Practitioners and Audit Scotland, that it is not on track to meet this target; regrets that there is still insufficient access to mental health practitioners working alongside...
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S6M-12214.3Selected item20 Feb 2024 · Amendment · Gulhane, SandeshAs an amendment to motion S6M-12214 in the name of Alex Cole-Hamilton (Improving Access to Primary Care), after "emergency" insert "; notes with deep concern that the number of GPs per thousand people has decreased significantly in the last decade; recalls that investment in new treatment centres was central to the Scottish Government's NHS Recovery Plan ...