Public Bodies (Joint Working) (Integration Joint Boards and Integration Joint Monitoring Committees) (Amendment) (Scotland) Order 2015 (SSI 2015/66)
Item 2 is subordinate legislation. We have six negative instruments before us, the first of which is the Public Bodies (Joint Working) (Integration Joint Boards and Integration Joint Monitoring Committees) (Amendment) (Scotland) Order 2015.
No motion to annul the order has been lodged, and the Delegated Powers and Law Reform Committee has made no comments on it. There being no comments from members, does the committee agree to make no recommendations on the order?
Members indicated agreement.
Public Bodies (Joint Working) (Integration Joint Board Establishment) (Scotland) Order 2015 (SSI 2015/88)
Again, no motion to annul the order has been lodged, and the Delegated Powers and Law Reform Committee has made no comments on it. There being no comments from members, does the committee agree to make no recommendations on the order?
Members indicated agreement.
Personal Injuries (NHS Charges) (Amounts) (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 2015 (SSI 2015/81)
No motion to annul the regulations has been lodged, and the Delegated Powers and Law Reform Committee has not made any comments on them. There being no comments from members, does the committee agree to make no recommendations on the regulations?
Members indicated agreement.
National Health Service (Optical Charges and Payments) (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 2015 (SSI 2015/86)
No motion to annul the regulations has been lodged, and the Delegated Powers and Law Reform Committee has made no comments on them. There being no comments from members, does the committee agree to make no recommendations on the regulations?
Members indicated agreement.
National Health Service (Cross-Border Health Care) (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 2015 (SSI 2015/91)
We are nearly there. No motion to annul the regulations has been lodged, and the Delegated Powers and Law Reform Committee has made no comments on them. There being no comments from members, does the committee agree to make no recommendations on the regulations?
Members indicated agreement.
Professional Standards Authority for Health and Social Care (Fees) Regulations 2015 (SI 2015/400)
The final instrument is the Professional Standards Authority for Health and Social Care (Fees) Regulations 2015. Again, no motion to annul the regulations has been lodged, and the Delegated Powers and Law Reform Committee has made no comments on them. I invite comments from members.
In effect, the regulations pass the cost of running the Professional Standards Authority for Health and Social Care, which used to be the Council for Healthcare Regulatory Excellence, on to the bodies that it supervises. In turn, they will, of course, pass the fee on to individual members who are registered. I inquired what that would be; apparently, it is in the region of £3 per member, which is not a lot. On the other hand, if a nurse or a midwife has just had a 50 per cent increase in the fee that they pay to the Nursing and Midwifery Council, that could be another straw on the camel’s back—maybe that is not the right expression.
It should be recognised—and I want to put it on record—that nurses and midwives have already had to sustain a substantial increase in their fees after their wages were initially frozen and then increased by a sub-inflation percentage until this year, so it is a matter of regret that this further—albeit small—increase in fees is occurring at this time.
With those comments on the record, do members agree not to make any recommendations?
Members indicated agreement.
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