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Chamber and committees

Health, Social Care and Sport Committee


Meeting Agenda

37th Meeting, 2023

  • Date: Tuesday, December 5, 2023
  • Session: 6
  • Location: TG.60-CR3 The Fleming Room
  • Start time: 09:15am
  • Published: Thursday, November 30, 2023 01:19pm

1 Decisions on taking business in private

The Committee will decide whether to take items 3, 4, 5 and 6 in private, and whether to consider, in private at future meetings, evidence heard at those meetings as part of its inquiry into remote and rural healthcare.


2 Healthcare in remote and rural areas

The Committee will take evidence from—


Witnesses

Neil Carnegie, Community OT Team Manager (Kirkcaldy & Postural Management), Fife Health & Social Care Partnership, Royal College of Occupational Therapists

Derek Laidler, Professional Lead Physiotherapist in Argyll and Bute, Lorn and Islands Hospital, Chartered Society of Physiotherapy

Catherine Shaw, Lead Advanced Practitioner for the Remote and Rural Support Team, NHS Highland

Sharon Wiener-Ogilvie, Vice Chair, Allied Health Professions Federation Scotland (AHPFS)



3 Healthcare in remote and rural areas

The Committee will consider the evidence it heard earlier under agenda item 2.


4 Women's Health Champion

The Committee will consider a draft letter to the Minister for Public Health and Women's Health.



5 Electronic patient record

The Committee will consider a draft letter to the Cabinet Secretary for NHS Recovery, Health and Social Care.



6 Post-legislative scrutiny: Alcohol (Minimum Pricing) (Scotland) Act 2012

The Committee will consider its approach to further scrutiny.



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