[S2M-944.3 (Amendment)] Decision Time — 26 Feb 2004 at 17:00

This looks like the vote on S2M-944.3

The description in the bulletin on 2004-02-26 is:

*S2M-944.3 Carolyn Leckie: Building and Supporting NHS Workforce-As an amendment to motion (S2M-944) in the name of Malcolm Chisholm, leave out from "recent" to end and insert "moderate increases in staff numbers in some staff and professional groups but regrets the lack of resources and effective planning devoted to the NHS workforce by successive governments, in particular the failure to plan effectively to ensure that enough NHS professionals were trained and employed to meet the needs and changing demography of the Scottish population, the requirements of the working time directive, the New Deal for Junior Doctors, the new consultant and GP contracts or the increasing demands for staff in specialisms; further regrets the continuance of the two tier workforce through PFI/PPP and the unacceptably wide gaps in pay and pay settlements between NHS workers; believes that our health service in Scotland will only be able to properly meet the needs and aspirations of the people of Scotland by stopping all PFI/PPP projects, making substantially greater investment in training, professional development, recruitment and retention, eradicating poverty pay and gender discrimination in pay, rewarding all NHS staff equally, proportionately and appropriately and by reducing the unacceptably high workload pressures on NHS staff."

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Text Introducing Division:

The sixth question is, that amendment S2M-944.3, in the name of Carolyn Leckie, which seeks to amend motion S2M-944, in the name of Malcolm Chisholm, on building and supporting the NHS work force, be agreed to. Are we agreed?

No.

There will be a division.

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