Health, Social Care and Sport Committee [Draft]

Meeting date: Tuesday, March 19, 2024

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Subordinate Legislation

National Health Service (Common Staffing Method) (Scotland) Regulations 2024 (SSI 2024/43)

The next item on our agenda is the committee’s second consideration of a negative instrument. The purpose of the instrument is to specify the minimum frequency at which the common staffing method is to be used in relation to specific types of healthcare, and the staffing level and professional judgment tools that must be used as part of the common staffing method for specified kinds of healthcare provision.

The committee first considered the instrument at its meeting on 5 March and agreed to write to the Scottish Government to request further information on the instrument, further to the correspondence that it had previously received from the Royal College of Nursing. The committee received a response from the Scottish Government on 8 March.

No motion to annul has been lodged in relation to the instrument. As I am not getting any indication that members have comments, I propose that the committee make no recommendation in relation to the negative instrument. Are we agreed?

Members indicated agreement.

At our next meeting, which will be on 26 March, we will consider subordinate legislation on minimum unit pricing of alcohol.