Increasing Understanding of Skin Conditions

That the Parliament welcomes the launch of the Dermatology Reference Guide, which has been developed in response to what it believes to be an identifiable need for guidance in the assessment and treatment of skin conditions; commends the achievement of the authors and those who have assisted in making it available to healthcare practitioners; offers congratulations to nurse director Anne Buchanan and dermatology liaison specialist nurses Barbara Page and Sheila Robertson from NHS Fife and nurse lecturer Janice Bianchi, who is a medical education specialist at JB Med Ed Ltd and is also an honorary lecturer at the University of Glasgow; believes that the book represents a concise and easy-to-navigate guide; thanks NHS Education for Scotland and the programme director for its nursing, midwifery and allied health professions directorate, Dorothy Armstrong and Derma UK, Galderma, Mölnlycke Health Care, Stiefel and Greg Mitchell, Alex Mathieson and Margaret Brown from Dermnet NZ for their financial and professional support; wishes the publication all the very best; hopes that a similar concept can be developed in other areas of healthcare and that this will serve as a stepping stone to further improvement in the way in which services are provided to patients with skin conditions in order to help raise their awareness of the available avenues that they could pursue in the array of treatment made available through the NHS so that the overall level of care and patient satisfaction is achieved, and hopes that the Scottish Government can take forward further developments and that it can make all of this guide, which it considers to be invaluable, available online.