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| Health workers are to be given extra protection against attack when working in communities, Scotland's health secretary is to announce. | Health workers are to be given extra protection against attack when working in communities, Scotland's health secretary is to announce. |
| Plans to extend existing laws to cover GPs, community nurses and midwives will be set out by Nicola Sturgeon at the SNP's annual conference. | Plans to extend existing laws to cover GPs, community nurses and midwives will be set out by Nicola Sturgeon at the SNP's annual conference. |
| The emergency worker legislation currently protects doctors, nurses and midwives when working in hospitals. | The emergency worker legislation currently protects doctors, nurses and midwives when working in hospitals. |
| Ms Sturgeon will also acknowledge the challenges of minority government. | Ms Sturgeon will also acknowledge the challenges of minority government. |
| But she will claim that voters rejected Labour "fears and smears" in May's election. | But she will claim that voters rejected Labour "fears and smears" in May's election. |
| Plans to strengthen the emergency worker legislation come after the stabbing of Dr Helen Jackson at a GP practice in the west end of Glasgow in August. | Plans to strengthen the emergency worker legislation come after the stabbing of Dr Helen Jackson at a GP practice in the west end of Glasgow in August. |
| CONFERENCE AGENDA, DAY TWO 1000 BST - Conference resumes1030 - Resolutions on independence and voting at 161130 - Donaldson Lecture, Rob Brown and Stephen Maxwell1215 - President's Prize1400 - Topical and emergency resolutions1430 - Resolutions on writers' museum, broadcasting, terror laws, Scottish civil service, council bylaws to ban air guns and sexual offences against children1510 - Speech by Health Secretary Nicola Sturgeon1540 - Resolutions | |
| Ministers plan to bring forward moves to amend the laws before Christmas and aim to have them in force within several months. | Ministers plan to bring forward moves to amend the laws before Christmas and aim to have them in force within several months. |
| The legislation will make it an offence to assault or obstruct people providing emergency care. | The legislation will make it an offence to assault or obstruct people providing emergency care. |
| In her speech on the second day of the conference in Aviemore, Ms Sturgeon - also Scotland's deputy first minister - will reflect on the SNP's Holyrood election victory, which saw the party emerge as the largest in the Scottish Parliament by just one seat. | In her speech on the second day of the conference in Aviemore, Ms Sturgeon - also Scotland's deputy first minister - will reflect on the SNP's Holyrood election victory, which saw the party emerge as the largest in the Scottish Parliament by just one seat. |
| She will tell delegates: "Yes we are a minority government with just a one seat advantage. | She will tell delegates: "Yes we are a minority government with just a one seat advantage. |
| "That means life will rarely be dull, but 3 May represented a fundamental shift in Scottish politics and the Scottish psyche. | "That means life will rarely be dull, but 3 May represented a fundamental shift in Scottish politics and the Scottish psyche. |
| "May 2007 was an election in which the people of Scotland looked Labour straight in the eye and told them they didn't believe them anymore. | "May 2007 was an election in which the people of Scotland looked Labour straight in the eye and told them they didn't believe them anymore. |
| "They rejected the fears and the smears and opted instead for a message of hope and optimism, a vision not of what Scotland can't do, but of what we can achieve if we have the courage to be bold. | "They rejected the fears and the smears and opted instead for a message of hope and optimism, a vision not of what Scotland can't do, but of what we can achieve if we have the courage to be bold. |
| "It was a confident act of a nation growing in self-belief." | "It was a confident act of a nation growing in self-belief." |