Question reference: S6W-10476
- Asked by: Donald Cameron, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: 23 August 2022
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Current status: Answered by Humza Yousaf on 20 September 2022
Question
To ask the Scottish Government on how many occasions the ministerial short-life working group, set up in response to the Sturrock review into cultural issues related to allegations of bullying and harassment in NHS Highland, has met; whether it will meet again in future, and, if so, when.
Answer
In the Scottish Government’s response to the Sturrock Review, a Ministerially-led Short-Life Working Group was convened, with representation from NHS boards, staff-side organisations, medical Royal Colleges based in Scotland and the professional and regulatory bodies representing medics, nurses and allied healthcare professionals.
The focus of this group was to examine how to take forward measures that support open and honest workplace cultures, specifically with a view to delivering sustainable behavioural and attitudinal changes to leadership and management across NHS Scotland.
This group met on 31 July 2019, 28 October 2019 and 18 June 2020. As this work has evolved, there are no plans for this group to meet.