HEALTH COMMITTEE
16^th Meeting 2006, Session 2

CONVENER

*Roseanna Cunningham (Perth) (SNP)

DEPUTY CONVENER

*Janis Hughes (Glasgow Rutherglen) (Lab)

COMMITTEE MEMBERS

*Helen Eadie (Dunfermline East) (Lab)
*Kate Maclean (Dundee West) (Lab)
*Mr Duncan McNeil (Greenock and Inverclyde) (Lab)
*Mrs Nanette Milne (North East Scotland) (Con)
*Shona Robison (Dundee East) (SNP)
*Euan Robson (Roxburgh and Berwickshire) (LD)
*Dr Jean Turner (Strathkelvin and Bearsden) (Ind)

COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTES

Mr Kenneth Macintosh (Eastwood) (Lab)
Mr Stewart Maxwell (West of Scotland) (SNP)
Margaret Smith (Edinburgh West) (LD)

*attended

THE FOLLOWING ALSO ATTENDED:

Lewis Macdonald (Deputy Minister for Health and Community Care)

THE FOLLOWING GAVE EVIDENCE:

Dr Jennifer Bennison (Royal College of General Practitioners Scotland)
Jim Eadie (Association of the British Pharmaceutical Industry Scotland)
Mark Hazelwood (Multiple Sclerosis Society Scotland)
Dr Caroline Hind (Grampian NHS Board)
Clara Mackay (Breast Cancer Care Scotland)
Bill Scott (Scottish Executive Health Department)
Dr David Steel (NHS Quality Improvement Scotland)
Angela Timoney (Royal Pharmaceutical Society Scottish Department)
Dr Iain Wallace (Greater Glasgow and Clyde NHS Board)
Professor David Webb (Scottish Medicines Consortium)

CLERKS TO THE COMMITTEE

Lynn Tullis
Simon Watkins

SENIOR ASSISTANT CLERK

Graeme Elliott

ASSISTANT CLERK

David Simpson

LOCATION

Committee Room 1