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Treatment Time Guarantee

  • Submitted by: Alex Cole-Hamilton, Edinburgh Western, Scottish Liberal Democrats.
  • Date lodged: Monday, 13 May 2019
  • Motion reference: S5M-17281
  • Current status: Taken in the Chamber on Wednesday, 15 May 2019

That the Parliament notes that the Scottish Government’s legally-binding 12-week treatment time guarantee has been broken at least 190,000 times since its introduction; notes that it is currently being missed by the largest ever margin, approximately 200 times a day; understands that the Scottish Government currently plans to stop breaching its own law by 2021, a full decade after the Patient Rights (Scotland) Act 2011, which established it; is concerned that there is no effective redress for patients or penalty for the Scottish Government in the event that it is breached; believes therefore that every patient who is subject to the treatment time guarantee should be given a realistic estimate of their waiting time from the outset, and calls for every patient for whom the 12-week legally binding guarantee is missed to be sent a letter by the health secretary apologising for the Scottish Government’s failure to abide by its law and providing details of how many times the 12-week target has been missed to date.


Vote

Result 53 for, 63 against, 0 abstained, 13 did not vote Vote Defeated

Scottish National Party

Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party

Scottish Labour

Scottish Green Party

Scottish Liberal Democrats

Independent

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No Party Affiliation

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Defeated amendments

Motion ref. S5M-17281.1

Treatment Time Guarantee - Amendment - Amendment

Submitted by: Miles Briggs, Lothian, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party, Date lodged: Tuesday, May 14, 2019

Current status: Taken in the chamber on Wednesday, May 15, 2019

Result 53 for, 57 against, 6 abstained, 13 did not vote Vote Defeated


Motion ref. S5M-17281.2

Treatment Time Guarantee - Amendment - Amendment

Submitted by: Monica Lennon, Central Scotland, Scottish Labour, Date lodged: Tuesday, May 14, 2019

Supported by: James Kelly, David Stewart
Current status: Taken in the chamber on Wednesday, May 15, 2019

Result 53 for, 57 against, 6 abstained, 13 did not vote Vote Defeated


Motion ref. S5M-17281.4

Treatment Time Guarantee - Amendment - Amendment

Submitted by: Jeane Freeman, Carrick, Cumnock and Doon Valley, Scottish National Party, Date lodged: Tuesday, May 14, 2019

Supported by: Joe FitzPatrick, Clare Haughey
Current status: Taken in the chamber on Wednesday, May 15, 2019

Result 57 for, 59 against, 0 abstained, 13 did not vote Vote Defeated


Amendments that have not been voted on

Motion ref. S5M-17281.3

Treatment Time Guarantee - Amendment - Amendment

Submitted by: Alison Johnstone, Lothian, Scottish Green Party, Date lodged: Tuesday, May 14, 2019

Current status: Taken in the chamber on Monday, January 1, 0001