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Petitions
Service Delivery for the Elderly or Vulnerable (Consultation) (PE1628)
Good morning, everyone, and welcome to the 11th meeting in 2017 of the Health and Sport Committee. I ask everyone to ensure that their mobile phones are on silent. It is acceptable to use mobile devices for social media, but please do not take photographs or film proceedings.
The first item on the agenda is to consider approach papers on two public petitions. The first petition is PE1628, which is on consultation on service delivery for the elderly or vulnerable. The committee is asked to consider the petition and the evidence that has been presented to the Public Petitions Committee in connection with the petition as part of its inquiry. Do committee members have any comments on the petition?
There are a lot of valid points in the petition. Given that we are starting a piece of work today on integration joint boards’ engagement with stakeholders, I suggest that we dismiss the petition but incorporate the issues that it raises into today’s evidence session and cover them during today’s discussion.
I visited the care home in question in Dunoon. I do not mind dismissing the petition as long as we consider the very important local issues that it raises, which I have a particular interest in.
Do members agree with Colin Smyth’s suggested course of action?
Members indicated agreement.
Whistleblowing in the NHS (PE1605)
The second petition is PE1605, which is on whistleblowing in the NHS—a safer way to report mismanagement and bullying. The committee is asked to consider the petition and the evidence on it that has been presented to the Public Petitions Committee. Do members have any comments?
I would like to suggest that we incorporate the issue into our inquiry into national health service governance. That seems highly appropriate. We could perhaps look at having a session on whistleblowing as part of the inquiry.
Do members agree to take that very sensible approach?
Members indicated agreement.