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The Official Report is a written record of public meetings of the Parliament and committees.  

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Dates of parliamentary sessions
  1. Session 1: 12 May 1999 to 31 March 2003
  2. Session 2: 7 May 2003 to 2 April 2007
  3. Session 3: 9 May 2007 to 22 March 2011
  4. Session 4: 11 May 2011 to 23 March 2016
  5. Session 5: 12 May 2016 to 5 May 2021
  6. Current session: 12 May 2021 to 3 July 2025
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Health, Social Care and Sport Committee

Winter Planning 2023-24

Meeting date: 5 September 2023

Clare Haughey

I think that David Gibson wants to come in.

Health, Social Care and Sport Committee

Winter Planning 2023-24

Meeting date: 5 September 2023

Clare Haughey

We need to move on. I ask MSPs to ask short and concise questions and witnesses to give short and concise answers, because we still have quite a bit to get through.

Health, Social Care and Sport Committee

Decision on Taking Business in Private

Meeting date: 5 September 2023

Clare Haughey

Good morning and welcome to the 24th meeting in 2023 of the Health, Social Care and Sport Committee. I have received no apologies for today’s meeting.

Item 1 is for the committee to decide whether to take items 4 to 6 in private. Do members agree to do that?

Members indicated agreement.

Health, Social Care and Sport Committee

Winter Planning 2023-24

Meeting date: 5 September 2023

Clare Haughey

That answer has gone a wee bit off the question. My question was specifically about the EU. We will move on to questions from Paul Sweeney.

Health, Social Care and Sport Committee

Winter Planning 2023-24

Meeting date: 5 September 2023

Clare Haughey

Staying on the subject of staffing, recruitment and retention, I note that research by the Nuffield Trust that was published in November 2022 found that Brexit had worsened the UK’s shortage of doctors in key areas of care. It suggests that about 4,000 European doctors have chosen not to work for the NHS. Separately, data that was released by the Nursing and Midwifery Council last May found that the UK has 58,000 fewer nurses than it would have had if the numbers arriving pre-Brexit had continued.

Are we seeing the effect of that on our NHS in Scotland? What, if anything, are you able to do to attract European Union nationals to come back or to come to work in the UK and in Scotland in particular?

Health, Social Care and Sport Committee

Winter Planning 2023-24

Meeting date: 5 September 2023

Clare Haughey

Tess White and Emma Harper have brief supplementary questions.

Health, Social Care and Sport Committee

Winter Planning 2023-24

Meeting date: 5 September 2023

Clare Haughey

We will move on to our final topic. I will bring in Sandesh Gulhane first.

Health, Social Care and Sport Committee

Winter Planning 2023-24

Meeting date: 5 September 2023

Clare Haughey

We will move on to workforce issues later in the session.

Emma Harper has a supplementary question on that issue.

Health, Social Care and Sport Committee

Winter Planning 2023-24

Meeting date: 5 September 2023

Clare Haughey

Item 2 is the first of our two sessions on winter planning. I welcome to the meeting Nicky Connor, who is the director of Fife health and social care partnership; David Gibson, who joins us remotely, who is chief social work officer at Argyll and Bute Council, chair of the workforce and resources standing committee at Social Work Scotland, and is here representing Social Work Scotland; John-Paul Loughrey, who is also joining us remotely and is vice-president for Scotland of the Royal College of Emergency Medicine, and is here representing the Academy of Medical Royal Colleges and Faculties in Scotland; and Pamela Milliken, who is the chief officer of Aberdeenshire health and social care partnership.

We move straight to questions from Sandesh Gulhane.

Health, Social Care and Sport Committee

NHS Scotland (Performance and Recovery)

Meeting date: 27 June 2023

Clare Haughey

I know that this is unusual, cabinet secretary, but would your diary be able to accommodate an extra ten minutes for the committee?