 Traf haddwg a focat sy'n ei gweithgadowan i siwr ei ond wedi ochradd ymateb. ddechrau'n i'n ei wneud i ammellos i draws i gydym yn y defnyddio'r dyfodol. Peach Lee. Er Hae? Geto yn y ddweud hynny. Felly, mae'n feddwl am gyflym mewn cyffredinol yn rhaid o'r parlymyndolaeth sy'n prosiectur nhw a'r prifyswyd y mae'r defnyddio'r dyfodol. Mae'n dweud, yn ei ddefnyddio, ac mae'n ffordd oherwydd am y anni ond y maes oherwydd y 30 oes yr ynchelio i'r Eiffyr Fou. Rydyn, mae'n gallu amdangos i fyfru gyda'r llaw 것igol oedd sy'n gweinwch am gwylltion. Mae'n gweithio i'r rhaglion creuio a'r llwyr o'r troi a'r teimlo i gyryd arno gwrs i'r amser grifith a meddwlol. Y Llyfr Gwysig, ei ddyn nhw, yw unrhywfannaeth o'r organisation oeddiolol ffondraethau i gweithgofnigau i gweithio a'r ddafiant heddiw i ddechrau i gyfrifonsio meddwlolol i ddweud i gyfrifonsio meddlol i ddweud i ddechrau i gweithio i gydol, ond yn methu i ddweud, i gyfrifonsio' i ddweud ond y gallwn i ni. As they state, every day matters when you're living with eternal illness and we want to help people to make the most of the time that they have. Marie Curie fulfills this in different ways. Persons entered as the technical jargon but all that it means is the best way possible. And with the wishes of the individual always at the forefront. The hospital service has hospices in Glasgow and Edinburgh and they're It is friendly and welcoming places, whether to residential or daycare, and annually care is provided to more than 1,000 inpatients, as well as many thousand home visits and additional day services. The helper service is currently in four local authority areas, providing emotional and practical support to people living with terminal illnesses and their families and carers. Os byddai i gwrthod yn siarad, ac mae'n rydyn nhw i'n medzifes y cwrdd moneigol at ymarwyr miliwyr ddau drwy wrth ddau Llyfr。 Gwrthodd yn ddialog i gyrdd ymarwyr cwrdd eich cyfnod, cyfnod cyfryd yn gyfnod 24-7 ar wirth oherwydd i'r gwrdd ac wedi amser ym yng Nghymru, ac mae'r dndig i'n gyffredinol i'r gwrdd i'r gwrdd maesol ond i'n gyfnod o'i gwirio gwrdd. ond mae'r maen iawn. Mae Mary Curie nurses yn ddechrau 4,700 gyfaradau yn 31 lleolau lleolau ddiwylliannol ac yn 2014-15 yn ddechrau 36,000 gilydd. Y ddigonfeydd a'r ffonsiad y maen iawn yn eu ddiwedd, ac yn ddiwedd, maen iawn hynny, o ddiwedd arall, oherwydd fan hynny yn ddiwedd o ffonsiad o gydag. The informative website has expanded to the Marie Curie community, an online forum where experiences can be shared and support given, again that inclusive working together in care. Of course, another aspect of the work of Marie Curie is participating in policy formation, always constructive and speaking from the broad base of experience. The starting point is that everyone should have the right to palliative care when they need it. The campaign run by Marie Curie and indeed other voluntary organisations has raised awareness of this issue with successive Governments and Parliaments, resulting in, I believe, a much greater understanding of the issues and a greater willingness to talk about them. It is excellent that Marie Curie gets involved in this work and it is shown in so many ways in our Parliament. For example, the recent Health and Sport Committee report that we need to talk about palliative care recognised the work that the voluntary sector has brought forward in this regard, as does the Scottish Government's vision in the strategic framework for action on palliative and end-of-life care, because people are living longer, with more complex and multiple conditions. More people are dying in hospitals, putting more pressure on acute services. That investment in palliative care in communities provides that care that people want. It has the potential to prevent unnecessary admissions and delayed discharges and to reduce acute care costs. That provision of palliative care in communities requires partnership working between health and social care and the voluntary sector. The reality is that not everyone living with eternal illness in Scotland is, in fact, getting the care and support that they need. Marie Curie reckoned that around 40,000 of the 54,000 people who die each year need some form of palliative care, and that probably around 11,000 people in Scotland miss out on that care that they need every year. There is also the research, the evidences and the inequity of access existing in accessing palliative care, especially for those over the age of 85, those who live alone, and those from Black, Asian and minority ethnic communities, who are deprived of communities too, but also those with terminal conditions other than cancer. We can make this better, but we can only do it by partnership working between health and social care services and great use of the voluntary sector. In fact, as Marie Curie said, palliative care is integrated health and social care if it is done sensitively and properly. Hospital support staff know this. There was a quote given to us by Marie Curie, which I reckon sums up an awful lot of it. In the past, we have had patients fit enough to go home, but by the time the service was available, they went, so they ended up stuck in the hospital until they died. That is not what we want for people that we love or indeed anyone in our society. However, I do believe that there is much to do, but that the will is there to do. If we all work together, we can make it better. I know that my colleagues have much more to say by referring again to the Great Daffodil Appeal, the 30th anniversary. In that 30 years, there has been more than £80 million across the UK, more than 80 local Marie Curie fundraising groups, including a very active one in East Cobride, which I represent. In 2015, that funded over 30,000 hours of nursing care and emotional support. That means that in Scotland there is support for over 7,500 people living with eternal illness, their carers and their families because of the work that is done by fundraisers. It covers the 31 local authorities. I still want to go, but they will get there. Fundraising also allows the charity to work in partnership with the NHS boards and local authorities to develop the innovative and integrated services that we know are necessary. I applaud the work of staff and volunteers across Marie Curie who are working towards their vision of a better life for people and their families living with eternal illness. I encourage as many people as possible outside the chamber to support this year's Great Daffodil campaign. Now, I welcome to them to be followed by David Torrance. I congratulate Linda Fabiani on introducing this motion. Once again, unlike her, I applaud the work of all the volunteers and staff who make such an indispensable and invaluable contribution in the care that they provide. In particular, I applaud the Great Daffodil appeal in its 30th year. All over the country, volunteers and fundraising groups are getting behind the daff and using the hashtag get behind daff to raise awareness on social media. They are taking, obviously, lots of practical actions, whether it is bake sales or quizzes or dressing up down or daft for the day. Let us praise them and celebrate their work. Of course, there are also the volunteers on the help or support project that Linda Fabiani mentioned and the volunteers and the staff who work in the many shops. I was pleased on the day to work for a day on the one at Goldenacre in my constituency. We also celebrate and acknowledge the work of the dedicated and motivated and amazing caring staff of Marie Curie. There are two great hospices, one of them in Edinburgh and one in Glasgow. I know that one in Edinburgh had 480 admissions last year. However, increasingly, Marie Curie is working in the community. We are told that there were 4,700 patients across Scotland supported in the community last year. In Lothian, there were 4,152 community nursing visits, 2,237 clinical nurse specialist visits. The motion also refers to the collaborative work between health boards, local authorities and the third sector. That, of course, is increasingly important as work is done in the community. I hope that the new integration joint boards, who now have responsibility for that, will recognise the vital role of the third sector in that work and, indeed, many other areas of work in the community. The hallmarks of Marie Curie are holistic, patient-centred and, most important, the services respond to the choices of patients. Again, I was pleased to see in relation to Lothian that 95 per cent of patients last year were able to die in their place of choice. There is a whole issue of the quality of care being central. The fact that many staff are able to participate in the research facilitator scheme is a way of enhancing the quality and ensuring that staff understand even better the needs of patients and the nature of quality care. There are other facets of the work that Linda Fabiano referred to. The information and support service, but we should also acknowledge the contribution of Marie Curie to policy. It is important that reports change the conversation and triggers for palliative care. In particular, it highlighted discrepancies in provision. Many different groups did not access the palliative care that they needed. In particular, we found out when we were doing our health committee inquiry on palliative care that people with terminal illness, other than cancer, often lost out. It was important that that research fed in to the strategic framework for action that Linda Fabiano referred to in the Government policy document and the health committee report. It has also campaigned on benefits. The Scottish Government has committed to fast-tracking benefits for those living with a terminal illness, but I know that Marie Curie is also concerned that the carers allowance for those caring for people with a terminal illness needs to be fast-tracked as well. I do not think that commitment has been made yet. It is probably difficult for the health minister to make it, but I am sure that she will pass that on to the minister with responsibility. My time is nearly up. I apologise for not being able to go to the reception. I have a very important constituency meeting in West Granton with a community centre threatened by closure, but I hope that I will be able to stay to the end of the debate. Perhaps if there are a large number of speakers, the Presiding Officer will forgive me if I leave slightly early. I thank Linda Fabiani for securing us in the debate in Parliament today, and I appreciate the chance to speak about Marie Curie's great daffodil appeal, which is now in its 30th year. It helps to facilitate much of the other good work that is carried out by the organisation. I would also like to welcome the representatives and volunteers from Marie Curie who are in the gallery today. Marie Curie, who has been carrying out work for over 65 years, is a charity like no other. During that time, it has managed to remain cognisant of how it is perceived and what people in Scotland and throughout the UK need from the services that it provides. With this in mind in 2015, it sought rebrand from Marie Curie cancer care to Marie Curie care and support through terminal illness. It supports over 7,400 terminally ill people in Scotland each year through the provision of its services in 31 local authorities in Scotland and the two hospices in Edinburgh and Glasgow. Because of the continued work that has been put in by the staff of Marie Curie and the many volunteers who give up their time, I think that it is of great importance that we take this time today to honour their achievements. Marie Curie is there for the people who are living with any terminal illness, whether it is cancer or any other illness, and it is also there to help to support families of those who have been affected. It offers expert care, guidance and support to help them to get the most from the time that they have left. The implementation of the new information and support services such as Marie Curie support line, the information hub on the website and the Marie Curie community online forum is helping them to achieve their goal of raising awareness and maximising the number of people who can access and benefit from the different types of support that are available. Very recent initiatives take place annually to raise funds, and of course one of the biggest successes for Marie Curie is in helping to raise funds for such services is the annual Great Daffodil appeal. Last year, there was a appeal raised £500 million in Scotland alone and over £8 million nationwide. Over the past few years, I have been able to join volunteers in my curcody constituency in the Great Daffodil fundraising appeal, and I never failed to be impressed by the effort put in organising these collections. The dedication and commitment of everyone involved in participating in the Daffodil appeal at different venues in the area is inspiring. I am equally amazed by the generosity of the public and support that we give to Marie Curie. The money raised in Scotland in 2015 funded over 30,000 hours of nursing care. The past two years have seen the formation of a new local Marie Curie fundraising group in Fife, who do so much in helping to raise funds not only through a great Daffodil appeal, but in many other events that they organise. In my constituency of curcody fundraising group, which raised more than £6,000 since the formation, recently held a joint event with the local Marie Curie shop, which I attended and I believe was the first ever held. It was a great success and £1,000 was raised, which provides over 50 hours of Marie Curie nursing. I am also looking forward to the great tea party and the mass keep fit session that they are organising in conjunction with the upcoming beach highland games and curcody to raise funds. I might even be convinced to take part. Marie Curie is constantly working to enhance its services in order to deliver the right care and has such encourages involvement for patients and feedback for families about issues surrounding terminal illness, prognosis and dying, bereavement and symptom control. Although Marie Curie will continue a good work, it does not support me suffering from terminal illnesses. It is no easy task and the service such as those mentioned previously aligned to the dedication and hard work of many volunteers and those who work for Marie Curie is invaluable. I have talked about Marie Curie's accomplishments in Scotland, including my local area. However, I want to raise awareness of the work that is still necessary in order to meet the challenges ahead. The future will bring greater demands with people expected to live longer, with more complex illnesses. 1.2 million people will surpass 90 years of age by 2033. It is important not only to help in relieving pain for those who are terminally ill, but to ensure that they are provided, call to the end of life care and to use Marie Curie's words to deliver the right care in the right place at the right time. Lastly, I encourage all fellow Scots to wear a daffodil and show support for Marie Curie's invaluable services. I thank Linda Fabiani for tabling the motion, which we discussed on a yearly basis. However, this year is special as we celebrate Marie Curie's 30th anniversary of its great daffodil appeal. Richard Mead of Marie Curie told my researcher at the Scottish Conservative Party conference last week, where Marie Curie had a stall, that he was disappointed that many members' debates in this Parliament are badly attended and supported. I very much share that sentiment, and others in this chamber will no doubt agree. Richard went on to say that these are actually occasions when we do not have party political points scoring but demonstrate why we came into public life in the first place. I think that many members agree that these debates are some of the most constructive and thoughtful that take place in this chamber, and that this is proving to be one of them. Can I take this opportunity to put on record my thanks to Richard Mead and his team on their showcasing of the work of Marie Curie to MSPs and the wider public? Without a dedicated outfit that understands that cancer is not something that should be ignored or hidden away, Marie Curie is at the forefront of such an important message. Recently, they have been very active in highlighting the importance of palliative care and starting the conversation about it early in a patient's journey through a non-curative health condition, not just cancer, but also long-term progressive conditions such as heart failure and COPD. They have long been promoting the need to speak openly about death and dying in an attempt to change the culture in this country, where these hugely important issues are swept under the carpet or ignored completely. As a highly respected organisation, they tend to be listened to and could have a big impact on changing attitudes to end-of-life issues. I have often said that I am not a huge fan of badges and ribbons to mark different charities and their events, although I would stress that that does not mean that I do not support such causes. However, there are two whose emblems I do wear. One is Poppy Scotland's red poppy in November and the other at this time of year is Marie Curie's bright yellow daffodil. Those simple and easily recognised emblems have a significant impact on people's willingness to contribute to those very worthwhile causes, and many, many people have benefited over the years as a result. I support Marie Curie and proudly wear the daffodil because of the remarkable palliative care that they provide to people across the United Kingdom. The north-east of Scotland, which I represent, is a region that has seen people cared for in a way that I did not see when I was a young hospital doctor. Now we have dedicated Marie Curie nurses going into people's homes who understand the needs of the thousands of people in Scotland who live with a terminal illness and how to support them and their families during such a stressful time, comforting them and often enabling them to gain some enjoyment during their last days and experience the good death to which we would all aspire. Hospices in Edinburgh and Glasgow look after people from all walks of life, of all ages, different backgrounds and of all creeds. Many of us will have seen, at first hand, the dedication in those hospices to loved ones by staff who not only provide the necessary medical care but also an understanding of the emotional support that relatives and friends need at the end of life situations. In north-east Scotland alone, in 2014-15, more than 1,600 people benefited from almost 10,000 hours of care from community nurses and a total of 21 Marie Curie volunteers also supported 54 people through their helper service. In NHS Grampian, 85 per cent of Marie Curie patients were able to die in their place of choice and 90 per cent in Tayside. I think that we would agree that this level of care is remarkable and outstanding. My researcher tells me that Frank Sinatra had more farewell tours than anyone else in show business, but then he had umpteen comebacks. This is not my final speech, but I can assure members that I will not be making any comebacks to this chamber as an MSP. However, one thing that I will be doing is to retain my connection with the cross-party group on cancer, and I am sure that that will mean my continued support for and involvement with Marie Curie, because it is a charity that demonstrates the very best in the voluntary sector. I congratulate my good friend Linda Fabiani on securing this debate. I am happy to confirm that I am going to get behind the fab and getting behind the daff, as well as allowing us an opportunity to acknowledge the phenomenal work done by Marie Curie nurses, staff and volunteers on behalf of terminale people and their families. It enables us to focus on the challenges that they face going forward. A victim of their own success, no doubt, but as Linda Fabiani reminded us, estimates suggest that around 11,000 people who need palliative care in Scotland miss out, with annual death rates due to rise by 13 per cent over the next 25 years. The risk is that the numbers that are missing out on the end of life care that they need will increase. In that context, it is encouraging that the Government's action plan for palliative and end-of-life care envisages that, by 2021, everyone who needs palliative care will get it. For that to happen, however, we will need to see greater priority given to this issue by health and care and social care partnerships, as well as from commitments from the incoming Scottish Government after May. Already, we are seeing an inequality of access. Marie Curie and her briefing point to the difficulties that are faced by particular groups. Those over 85, those living alone, ethnic minorities and those from deprived communities. As Malcolm Chisholm testified earlier, disparities also exist between those affected by cancer on the one hand and those with other terminal conditions—dementia, motor neuro and heart failure. Sufferers of those conditions all seem to be overrepresented in the numbers of people not accessing end-of-life care. That, in part, may reflect a public perception still that Marie Curie is for people affected by cancer. That, as other speakers have already reminded us, is wrong, and, hopefully, those perceptions are beginning to change, something that I know local volunteers in Orkney are working hard to achieve. However, there is still some way to go. As well as awareness-raising, local volunteers are part of a remarkable fundraising effort on behalf of the charity. The amounts that are raised in Orkney have been testimony to the generosity of the local public, but they are also a recognition of the importance of good quality, widely available palliative care. After all, there can be few people in Orkney or, indeed, in any community who do not know of somebody who has been affected. With a population that is aging faster than the national average, and one that is living longer with more complex conditions, and one that is dispersed over a number of islands in rural Parishes, it is clear that the challenges in this area are only likely to increase. The need for funding to meet those challenges is only likely to do the same. That is why I want to pay particular tribute to those who volunteer their time to help raise those funds. Barbara Todd deserves particular mention for her heroic efforts. Barbara is due to step down as the local chair of Marie Curie in Orkney in May, but I know that she will remain closely involved and very active. A special mention, too, for Terry Payton, who I hope has been able to make it along to Parliament this evening, and to Linda Lennie, who I am sure has made it along, assuming that she has escaped the clutches of Marks and Spencer's. It is great to have a strong Orkney presence in the gallery and at the reception later this evening. I would also like to put on record, once again, my gratitude to Dr Andrew Trevitt and his colleagues for the commitment that they have shown in delivering the service in Orkney. This has been a relatively recent development, sadly leaves Shetland as the only area without such a service. Indeed, when I spoke in the debate last year, only patients in the west mainland of Orkney were able to access Marie Curie support. I am delighted to confirm to Parliament that this has been expanded to cover all of the Orkney mainland, with three Marie Curie nurses now in place. In time, hopefully, constituents living in the inner and outer aisles may benefit similarly. Fairness demands no less. It is vital that capacity is built and momentum is maintained. This is a service that fits not just with the palliative care strategy that I mentioned earlier but with the clinical strategy, too. In that sense, I hope that it can become more firmly embedded in the near future through a partnership between health and social care and the voluntary sector. The number of patients in Orkney who have benefited so far is relatively small, but the impact has been significant. Patients in their families are hugely positive about what the support gives them. That speaks volumes. I congratulate Linda Fabiani on allowing us to have the debate. To all the Marie Curie nurses, staff and volunteers, I offer my sincere thanks to the exceptional work that you do, allowing people to die with the dignity and in the place of their choice. I thank my colleague Linda Fabiani for securing the annual debate. I always feel honoured and quite humbled because the Marie Curie Glasgow hospice is based in my constituency, and I have had the opportunity to visit it on many occasions. It is one of those places that you always leave feeling much better than you did when you entered its doors, because there is such a feeling of calm, of joy, of peace and of enthusiasm for the work that is done there. I pay my own tribute to all the staff of Marie Curie who helped to make that atmosphere and that ethos so obvious to everyone who enters within it. As we know, we are celebrating the great Daffodil appeal in its 30th year, and it is worth just thinking back about the amount of effort and the amount of enthusiasm and the initiative that went into establishing that wonderful idea in the first place. We know too that one of the great things about Marie Curie is that it has allowed so many people to be able to leave this world in the manner of their choosing, but I want to speak a little bit about those who remain behind. In 1992, a young man called Alan Young was bereaved. His mother unfortunately died. Alan was still at school at the time when his mum Margo passed away. Margo had been a patient at the Marie Curie hospice in Glasgow prior to her death. As an adult, Alan Young established a foundation in his mother's memory, the Margo Young Foundation. It creates events and organises events too to raise money to go towards the work of the Marie Curie hospices. Last year, for example, they organised a 99-hole golf event. I still find it quite difficult to get my head around how that worked, but I understand that the golfers set out at 3.30 am in order to play 99 holes over five and a half courses, so I am told, and completed by 9pm, raising in the process a great deal of money for the Marie Curie hospice. What Marie Curie has done with that money in conjunction or in conversation with the Margo Young Foundation is to set up a child bereavement project to recognise that there are children who are bereaved at a very early age of their parents or of another sibling or a loved one and who perhaps find it difficult to deal with the consequences of that. I think that that is a very fitting memorial to Margo Young and all praise to Alan and everyone who works with him to raise the money that makes all of that possible. Of course, it is the fundraising efforts of volunteers in the main that makes all of the work of Marie Curie possible. Again, I am fortunate to have two shops in my constituency, one in Springburn and one in Mary Hill, both of which are extremely popular locally and which raise a great deal of money for the charity. Again, the work of volunteers is second to none, in my view, in connection with Marie Curie, and the long may that continue. However, I want to say a little bit about the disparity that we have heard about this evening about palliative care. In last year's debate, I perhaps majored on that particular issue. I think that it is incumbent upon every one of us, with an interest in Marie Curie and the work that it does, to help by raising our voices and by using all the opportunities that we have to explain to the wider communities that we work in and operate in that Marie Curie hospices and palliative care are not just for cancer sufferers, but they are for anyone with a life-limiting condition. If we can do one thing ourselves, it may be that we use our websites and our opportunities of speaking to groups of individuals and communities around our constituencies to make that point clear. If we were able to do that, we would be helping not just Marie Curie but everyone who could benefit from those services. I invite the minister, Maureen Watt, to close the debate on behalf of the Government. Seven minutes or thereby, please, minister. Thank you very much, Presiding Officer. I also thank Linda Fabiani for again leading a debate on Marie Curie's great Daffodil appeal. As has been said, this year marks the 30th anniversary of the great Daffodil appeal. Marie Curie's staff and volunteers must be really proud of an appeal that started 30 years ago and is still going strong. I would like to acknowledge and give a special thanks to all the people across Scotland for their donations over the years to the great Daffodil appeal in helping to make this such a success. I would also like to commend the hard work of the many dedicated volunteers across Scotland, some whom I have made it to Parliament this evening, who support this appeal and for the many other fundraising events each year that are organised. Every month, around 80 groups around Scotland raise funds for this appeal. The success of their staff and volunteers in getting us to don ridiculous hats, tabards and the likes is legendary, but all very worthwhile. If somebody can get David Torrance to take part in a keep fit session, I hope that somebody has a camera to hand. The need for a clear vision on the future of palliative and end-of-life care in Scotland is widely shared by the Scottish Government, NHS boards and all those committed to the delivery of high-quality end-of-life and palliative care. That is why the Scottish Government published the strategic framework for action on palliative and end-of-life care last December. The framework sets out a simple vision for the next five years that, by 2021, everyone in Scotland who needs palliative care will have access to it. The strategic framework for action aims to ensure that access to palliative care is available to all who can benefit from it, regardless of age, gender, diagnosis, social group or location. It was important that a number of members highlighted that. Within the strategic framework for action are the Government's 10 commitments that support improvement in the delivery of palliative and end-of-life care. Those address issues from our reluctance to talk about death through the commissioning of integrated services to the capture and use of data that will tell us where we have got to and what we still need to do. There are several challenges that need to be addressed if we are to make headway towards ensuring that access to palliative and end-of-life care is available to all who can benefit from it. To understand the care needs of the people of Scotland, we must continue to listen to what they have to say. We know that they have told us that they want to plan care that supports them in identifying their preferences at every stage in their care, including when time becomes shorter, whether that be in hospital, in a hospice or at home. That is why collaborative care planning, including anticipatory care planning, is now central to health and care in Scotland. Linda Fabiani herself mentioned policy collaboration, and Mary Curie is involved in this. It is absolutely vitally important that we learn from those who carry out this vital work, which includes Mary Curie and other third sector organisations. Scotland needs a train to work force to deliver palliative and end-of-life care so that informal carriers, family members and volunteers can have the support, education and guidance that they need. We know that Mary Curie is excellent at this. Training and education will be key to the implementation of the framework. NHS Education Scotland is recruiting three regional practice education co-ordinators to work across the NHS and social care services to support this work. A new short-life working group is being established to produce guidance to support health and social care partnerships with the development of their strategic commissioning plans around palliative and end-of-life services. By summer of this year, the 10 commitments will have informed and be reflected in implementation and improvement plans. We need services that are co-ordinated so that the people of Scotland have access to the highest standards of care in the right place and at the right time. The legislative changes that are being introduced with the integration of health and social care will improve people's quality of life and improve the effectiveness of the whole NHS and the social care system. We can only achieve improvements through working with all the people that matter and are committed to making this care a reality. Mary Curie has a wealth of experience in palliative and end-of-life care and we value the work that they do in providing person-centred, safe and effective care to the people and their families in the final stages of their lives. It was important to me that David Torrance and Patricia Ferguson mentioned the support for families and particularly the child bereavement programme that Patricia Ferguson mentioned. I have no doubt that this year's great Daffodil appeal will be a great success and Mary Curie will continue to work with us in partnership in delivering the same high standards of palliative and end-of-life care to people all over Scotland. I encourage fellow MSPs, if they have not already done so, to stop by the Mary Curie stall and speak to Richard and his colleagues. Everyone in the chamber today will agree that enabling people to die well and supporting those who love them is something that is worth doing and worth doing well. Every day, Mary Curie is leading the way in this. Many thanks. I know Claude's meeting appointment.