Written Submissions for PE1109  

15 January 2008 :   The Committee agreed to seek responses to the issues raised in the petition from the Scottish Government, Scottish Intercollegiate Guidelines Network and University of Glasgow – Psoriasis and Clinical Genetics Research Group. Link to Official Report 15 January 2008 

15 April 2008 :   The Committee agreed to write to the Scottish Government and the Scottish Intercollegiate Guidelines Network to ask whether national standards of care for people with psoriasis and psoriatic arthritis will be included in the clinical guidelines currently being developed and whether the other issues raised by the petitioner in supplementary evidence are being looked into. Link to Official Report 15 April 2008 

7 October 2008 :   The Committee agreed to close consideration of the petition on grounds that the petitioner has been invited to join the multidisciplinary committee responsible for developing clinical guidelines for psoriasis and psoriatic arthritis; that the petitioner has also been invited to participate in the forthcoming consultation on the work of NHS Quality Improvement Scotland to push the case for national standards of care for psoriasis and psoriatic arthritis; and that prescription charges will be scrapped by 1 April 2011, therefore, removing the requirement for psoriasis and psoriatic arthritis to be defined as chronic conditions exempt from prescription charges. Link to Official Report 7 October 2008