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Health, Social Care and Sport Committee
Patient Safety Commissioner for Scotland Bill: Stage 1
Meeting date: 7 February 2023
Gillian Martin
Thank you. We will move on to questions on monitoring and information gathering, which have been mentioned already briefly.
Health, Social Care and Sport Committee
Patient Safety Commissioner for Scotland Bill: Stage 1
Meeting date: 31 January 2023
Gillian Martin
Paul Sweeney has a final question.
Health, Social Care and Sport Committee
Patient Safety Commissioner for Scotland Bill: Stage 1
Meeting date: 31 January 2023
Gillian Martin
We move to questions on social care inclusion from Paul O’Kane.
Health, Social Care and Sport Committee
Patient Safety Commissioner for Scotland Bill: Stage 1
Meeting date: 31 January 2023
Gillian Martin
A few members want to come in on the back of that. Can we have very short questions? We have a lot of themes to get through in the hour, which will, I feel, pass very quickly.
We will hear quick questions from Emma Harper and Stephanie Callaghan before I move on to the next theme.
Health, Social Care and Sport Committee
Patient Safety Commissioner for Scotland Bill: Stage 1
Meeting date: 31 January 2023
Gillian Martin
We will move on to questions from Sandesh Gulhane on the English patient safety commissioner.
Health, Social Care and Sport Committee
Patient Safety Commissioner for Scotland Bill: Stage 1
Meeting date: 31 January 2023
Gillian Martin
David Torrance will lead questions about the appointment process.
10:30Health, Social Care and Sport Committee
Subordinate Legislation
Meeting date: 31 January 2023
Gillian Martin
Our third item is consideration of the Community Care (Personal Care and Nursing Care) (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 2023. The purpose of the regulations is to increase the value of payments for free personal care and nursing care by 9.5 per cent. This is an annual increase. The policy note states that emerging evidence in recent years shows that the cost of providing personal and nursing care has increased significantly and the payment made to providers by local authorities for self-funding residents has not kept pace with it.
The Delegated Powers and Law Reform Committee considered the regulations at its meeting on 24 January 2023 and made no recommendations in relation to the regulations.
We are now going to have an evidence session with the Minister for Mental Wellbeing and Social Care and supporting officials on the regulations. Once we have had all our questions answered, we will proceed to a formal debate on the motion.
I welcome Kevin Stewart, who is the Minister for Mental Wellbeing and Social Care. Accompanying the minister are Scottish Government officials Marianne Barker, who is the unit head of adult social care charging, and Clare Thomas, who is the policy manager of adult social care charging. Thank you for joining us today.?I invite the minister to make a statement.
Health, Social Care and Sport Committee
Patient Safety Commissioner for Scotland Bill: Stage 1
Meeting date: 31 January 2023
Gillian Martin
The next item is our first oral evidence session on the Patient Safety Commissioner for Scotland Bill.
Today we will take evidence from Baroness Cumberlege, who led the independent medicines and medical devices safety review.?Joining the committee remotely are Lady Cumberlege, the review’s chair, and Simon Whale, who was a review team member and communications lead.
I will move straight to asking Baroness Cumberlege a question about the review. One of the review’s recommendations was on the need for a patient safety commissioner. That is happening in NHS England. Through the bill, the Scottish Government proposes that Scotland will also have a patient safety commissioner. What, in the review, led you to conclude that a patient safety commissioner would be a good way of addressing the public’s issues with patient safety?
Health, Social Care and Sport Committee
Patient Safety Commissioner for Scotland Bill: Stage 1
Meeting date: 31 January 2023
Gillian Martin
I thank Baroness Cumberlege and Simon Whale for their attendance, which has been extremely helpful and for the tremendous work that they have undertaken on the review so far. Please pass on our best wishes to Henrietta Hughes, as we begin our process of getting a patient safety commissioner for Scotland.
10:50 Meeting suspended.11:05 On resuming—
Health, Social Care and Sport Committee
Patient Safety Commissioner for Scotland Bill: Stage 1
Meeting date: 31 January 2023
Gillian Martin
My colleagues will ask questions later about the difference between what is happening in the English NHS with regards to the remit of the Patient Safety Commissioner and what is proposed for the Scottish patient safety commissioner.
During your deliberations when deciding on whether to have a patient safety commissioner, were there discussions about alternatives? Was anything discounted or put in the mix that you thought might be a way forward that would not go down the route of creating a patient safety commissioner?
