Health, Social Care and Sport Committee
Meeting date: Tuesday, June 14, 2022
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Contents
- Attendance
- Decision on Taking Business in Private
- Subordinate Legislation
- Health Inequalities
Subordinate Legislation
Novel Foods (Authorisations) and Smoke Flavourings (Modification of Authorisations) (Scotland) Regulations 2022 (SSI 2022/168)
National Health Service (Optical Charges and Payments and General Ophthalmic Services) (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 2022 (SSI 2022/169)
National Health Service (Vocational Training for Dentists) (Miscellaneous Amendment) (Scotland) Regulations 2022 (SSI 2022/170)
Agenda item 2 is consideration of three negative instruments. The Delegated Powers and Law Reform Committee considered the three instruments at its meeting on 7 June 2022 and made no recommendations in relation to them.
The first instrument is the Novel Foods (Authorisations) and Smoke Flavourings (Modification of Authorisations) (Scotland) Regulations 2022. The negative instrument implements a decision by the Minister for Public Health, Women’s Health and Sport in relation to five novel foods, authorising four new novel foods for placement on the market in Scotland and one extension of use for an already authorised novel food. The regulations also authorise the transfer of authorisation holder for five smoke flavourings.
No motion to annul the regulations has been lodged. As members have no comments on the regulations, I propose that the committee does not make any recommendation in relation to them. Do members agree?
Members indicated agreement.
The second instrument is the National Health Service (Optical Charges and Payments and General Ophthalmic Services) (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 2022. The purpose of the negative instrument is to increase national health service optical voucher values by 2 per cent, to support more patients with eye problems being safely managed in the community, to enable remote consultations and to deliver other miscellaneous changes.
No motion to annul the regulations has been lodged. As members have no comments on the regulations, I propose that the committee does not make any recommendation in relation to them. Do members agree?
Members indicated agreement.
The third instrument is the National Health Service (Vocational Training for Dentists) (Miscellaneous Amendment) (Scotland) Regulations 2022. The regulations amend the National Health Service (Vocational Training for General Dental Practice) (Scotland) Regulations 2004, first, to change the employer of dentists undertaking vocational training from training practices to NHS Education for Scotland and, secondly, to continue an exemption from vocational training for dentists who hold certain European diplomas.
No motion to annul the regulations has been lodged.? Do members have any comments on them?
On vocational training and the fact that it will now be NES that pays rather than individual employers, does that mean that NES will also pay pension contributions? I assume that it does. Will the regulations also allow dentists who are on vocational training to access NHS benefits, including the cycle-to-work scheme?
We can write to the minister and ask for clarification of that.
As members have no other comments, I propose that the committee does not make any recommendation in relation to the negative instrument but that we write to the minister on the points that Dr Gulhane raised. Do members agree?
Members indicated agreement.
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