Health, Social Care and Sport Committee

Meeting date: Tuesday, September 19, 2023

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Subordinate Legislation

Personal Injuries (NHS Charges) (Amounts) (Scotland) Amendment (No 2) Regulations 2023 (SSI 2023/243)

The next item on the agenda is consideration of one negative instrument. The purpose of the instrument is to increase the charges that are recovered from persons who pay compensation in cases where an injured person receives national health service hospital treatment or ambulance services. The increase in charges relates to an uplift for hospital and community health service inflation.

The policy note states:

“The NHS charges are revised annually from 1 April to take account of Hospital and Community Health Services (HCHS) pay and price inflation. The last revision took effect from 1 April 2023, applying the estimate for HCHS inflation at that time of 2.8%. As a result of subsequent NHS pay deals, the latest estimate for HCHS inflation is 5.3% ... This midyear tariff uplift addresses the significant gap between forecast and actual pay inflation.”

The Delegated Powers and Law Reform Committee considered the instrument at its meeting on 12 September 2023 and made no recommendations in relation to the instrument. No motion to annul has been lodged in relation to the instrument.

As members have no comments, I propose that the committee does not make any recommendations in relation to the negative instrument.

Members indicated agreement.

The next meeting of the committee will briefly consider a negative instrument and that will be followed by a joint meeting of selected members of the Health, Social Care and Sport Committee, the Social Justice and Social Security Committee and the Criminal Justice Committee to scrutinise drug policy. At our meeting on 3 October, the committee will receive an update from the Minister for Social Care, Mental Wellbeing and Sport on the National Care Service (Scotland) Bill and we will continue with our pre-budget scrutiny.

That concludes the public part of our meeting today.