Health, Social Care and Sport Committee
The Committee was established in June 2021. It focuses on:
- health services in Scotland, including performance, staffing and funding
- NHS recovery and remobilisation
- primary care, including dentistry, GPs, and pharmacy services
- public health including mental health and wellbeing, and tackling drug and alcohol misuse
- social care
- sport and physical activity
Next meeting of the committee
Details of the next meeting are not available yet.
Future meetings of the committee
The Health, Social Care and Sport Committee usually meets weekly on Tuesdays.
Previous meetings of the committee
Work of the Committee
Facal-luirg
Facal-luirg
Abortion Services (Safe Access Zones) (Scotland) Bill
Alternative pathways into primary care
Budget Scrutiny 2023-24
Budget scrutiny 2024-25
Experiences of the Complex Mesh Surgical Service
Health and wellbeing of children and young people
Health inequalities
Healthcare in remote and rural areas
Inquiry into female participation in sport and physical activity
NHS boards scrutiny
Patient Safety Commissioner for Scotland Bill
Perinatal Mental Health
Post-legislative scrutiny of the Social Care (Self-directed Support) (Scotland) Act 2013
Questions to the Cabinet Secretary
Racism in Sport
Transvaginal Mesh Removal Cost Reimbursement Scotland Bill
Winter planning 2023-24
Correspondence
Correspondence
Health, Social Care and Sport Committee
Anaesthesia Associates and Physician Associates
29 April 2025
Letter from the HSCS Convener to the Cabinet Secretary for Health and Social Care on the regulation of Anaesthesia Associates and Physician Associates, 29 April 2025
Health, Social Care and Sport Committee
Post-legislative scrutiny of the Social Care (Self-directed Support) (Scotland) Act 2013
29 April 2025
Letter from the HSCS Convener to the Minister for Social Care, Mental Wellbeing and Sport on post-legislative scrutiny of the Social Care (Self-directed Support) (Scotland) Act 2013, 29 April 2025
Health, Social Care and Sport Committee
Assisted Dying for Terminally Ill Adults (Scotland) Bill
11 April 2025
Correspondence from the Royal College of General Practitioners Scotland to the HSCS Convener in relation to the Assisted Dying for Terminally Ill Adults (Scotland) Bill, 11 April 2025
Official Reports of meetings
Official Reports of meetings
Meeting date: Tuesday, March 25, 2025
Health, Social Care and Sport Committee
Decision on Taking Business in Private, Right to Addiction Recovery (Scotland) Bill: Stage 1, Assisted Dying for Terminally Ill Adults (Scotland) Bill: Stage 1, Subordinate Legislation
Meeting date: Tuesday, March 18, 2025
Health, Social Care and Sport Committee
Decision on Taking Business in Private, Right to Addiction Recovery (Scotland) Bill: Stage 1, Subordinate Legislation
Meeting date: Tuesday, March 11, 2025
Health, Social Care and Sport Committee
Decision on Taking Business in Private, Sportscotland, Subordinate Legislation
Meeting date: Tuesday, March 4, 2025
Health, Social Care and Sport Committee
Decision on Taking Business in Private, National Care Service (Scotland) Bill: Stage 2, Subordinate Legislation
Meeting date: Tuesday, February 25, 2025
Health, Social Care and Sport Committee
Interests, National Care Service (Scotland) Bill: Stage 2
Meeting date: Thursday, February 20, 2025
Tackling Drug Deaths and Drug Harm, Decision on Taking Business in Private, Tackling Drug Deaths and Drug Harm
Meeting date: Tuesday, February 4, 2025
Health, Social Care and Sport Committee
Assisted Dying for Terminally Ill Adults (Scotland) Bill: Stage 1
Meeting date: Tuesday, January 28, 2025
Health, Social Care and Sport Committee
Subordinate Legislation, Assisted Dying for Terminally Ill Adults (Scotland) Bill: Stage 1
Meeting date: Tuesday, January 21, 2025
Health, Social Care and Sport Committee
Subordinate Legislation, Assisted Dying for Terminally Ill Adults (Scotland) Bill: Stage 1
Meeting date: Tuesday, January 14, 2025
Health, Social Care and Sport Committee
Subordinate Legislation, Assisted Dying for Terminally Ill Adults (Scotland) Bill: Stage 1
Reports
Committee reports
The Community Care (Personal Care and Nursing Care) (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 2025 [draft]
This report sets out the Health, Social Care and Sport Committee's consideration of a Scottish Statutory Instrument (SSI) at its meeting on 4 March 2025.
This report sets out the Health, Social Care and Sport Committee's consideration of two Scottish Statutory Instruments (SSIs) at its meeting on 10 December 2024 in relation to burial law in Scotland.
A report on the Health, Social Care and Sport Committee's scrutiny of the National Performance Framework.
Facal-luirg
Clare Haughey
Convener
Scottish National Party
Paul Sweeney
Deputy Convener
Scottish Labour
Joe FitzPatrick
Member
Scottish National Party
Dr Sandesh Gulhane
Member
Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Emma Harper
Member
Scottish National Party
Gillian Mackay
Member
Scottish Green Party
Carol Mochan
Member
Scottish Labour
David Torrance
Member
Scottish National Party
Elena Whitham
Member
Scottish National Party
Brian Whittle
Member
Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Full details of committee membership, including substitute and previous members