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Chamber and committees

Health, Social Care and Sport Committee


Budget scrutiny 2024-25

Background

The Health, Social Care and Sport Committee undertook budget scrutiny for 2024-25.

Over the course of this inquiry, we looked to understand:

  • Whether planned budget increases set out in the Scottish Government’s Medium-Term Financial Strategy would meet the various challenges facing health and social care.
  • Whether there was any longer-term thinking in budgeting for health and social care.
  • Whether financial sustainability can be achieved in the face of continuing pressures around pay costs, treatment costs and rising demand and if additional health and social care funding should be directed to support alternative models of service delivery.
  • How health and social care budgets should be prioritised in this landscape of multiple frameworks and targets.

Your views

The call for views closed on 25 August 2023.

Read the responses


Engagement

Oral evidence

19 September: The Committee took evidence from—

Carmen Martinez, Coordinator, Scottish Women's Budget Group

Professor David Ulph, Commissioner, Scottish Fiscal Commission

Philip Whyte, Director, IPPR Scotland

Papers for the meeting on 19 September 2023

Minutes for the meeting on 19 September 2023

 

3 October: The Committee took evidence from—

Richard McCallum, Director of Health Finance and Governance, Scottish Government

Stephen Lea-Ross
, Deputy Director of Health Workforce, Planning and Development, Scottish Government

Niamh O’Connor
, Deputy Director, Directorate of Population Health, Scottish Government

Papers for the meeting on 3 October 2023

Minutes for the meeting on 3 October 2023

 

16 January: The Committee took evidence from—

Michael Matheson, Cabinet Secretary for NHS Recovery, Health and Social Care, Scottish Government

Richard McCallum, Director of Health and Social Care Finance, Digital and Governance, Scottish Government

Papers for the meeting on 16 January 2024

Minutes for the meeting on 16 January 2024

Report

The Committee outlined its recommendations in a letter to the Cabinet Secretary for NHS Recovery, Health and Social Care. The letter and the Government's response can be found in the Correspondence section of this page.

Correspondence


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