It calls on the Scottish Parliament to consider and debate the need for an independent body to be set up to investigate claims of medical negligence.At its meeting on 22 February 2006, the committee considered responses from the British Medical Association Scotland, Citizen's Advice Scotland, the General Medical Council, the Law Society of Scotland, the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh, the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow, the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh and the Minister for Health and Community Care.