Chamber and committees

Health, Social Care and Sport Committee

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Meeting Agenda

22nd Meeting, 2022

• Date: Tuesday, June 14, 2022
• Session: 6
• Location: TG.60-CR3 The Fleming Room
• Start time: 09:30am
• Published: Tuesday, June 14, 2022 08:31am

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1 Decision on taking business in private

The Committee will decide whether to take item 4 in private.

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2 Subordinate legislation

The Committee will consider the following negative instruments—

Novel Foods (Authorisations) and Smoke Flavourings (Modification of Authorisations) (Scotland) Regulations 2022

National Health Service (Optical Charges and Payments and General Ophthalmic Services) (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 2022

National Health Service (Vocational Training for Dentists) (Miscellaneous Amendment) (Scotland) Regulations 2022

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Subordinate legislation - Negative SSIs paper 217KB pdf posted 09/06/2022 (Ref: HSCS/S6/22/22/1)

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3 Health Inequalities

The Committee will take evidence from—

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Witnesses

Toni Groundwater, Head of External Engagement, Families Outside

Karen Lewis, Manager, The Hub, Dumfries and Galloway

Richard Meade, Director, Carers Scotland

Dr Sharon Wright, Professor, University of Glasgow

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Inquiry on health inequalities - Note by the Clerk 97KB pdf posted 09/06/2022 (Ref: HSCS/S6/22/22/2)

Inquiry on health inequalities - Informal engagement events2 240KB pdf posted 14/06/2022 (Ref: HSCS/S6/22/22/3)

HSCS/S6/22/22/4(P) (Private Paper)

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4 Health Inequalities

The Committee will consider the evidence it heard earlier under agenda item 3.

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