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However, a few standards are no longer up to date and need reviewing.There was certainly evidence that some clinicians are not recording everything about procedures in patients' case notes.
We will keep in close touch and keep the committee up to date with that. You mentioned that there is Scottish representation on various working groups.
We might ask what the Executive considers the best way in which to address legislation that post-dates the Scotland Act 1998. I hope that I have understood the problem.
The purpose of my suggestion was to get a date for the stage 2 consideration, so that we can alert the organisations that are likely to give evidence and give them time to prepare themselves.
Fortunately, I am a member only of this committee, but keeping up to date with its work is still challenging.We might find that we exhaust all our sources of reference within three months.
An officer goes by, does a double-check, ensures that everything is up to date and sends in a small report, which lets us know that they have made the check and that everything is current.
Will the courts accept that the original date means the new date—who knows? It seems strange that the Executive is not changing all the other commencements at the same time.
Having a disagreement would certainly be a test of our good working relationship with the care commission. However, to date, we have not tested the relationship to that extent.