Chamber and committees

Patient Safety Commissioner for Scotland Bill - Financial Memorandum

Overview

The Bill establishes a new office of Patient Safety Commissioner for Scotland.

The Patient Safety Commissioner will:

• support system-wide improvement in the safety of health care;
• promote the importance of the views of patients and members of the public in relation to the safety of health care.

The Commissioner will have various functions, including the power to investigate health care safety issues. During an investigation, the Commissioner can require health care providers or individuals to provide relevant information.

The Commissioner must publish reports on health care safety issues and make recommendations as to how these issues can be addressed. The Commissioner can require a health care provider or an individual to respond to any recommendations.

Financial Memorandum

As with all Bills, the Finance and Public Administration Committee invites written evidence on the estimated financial implications of the Bill as set out in its accompanying Financial Memorandum (FM).

Read the FM for this Bill: Financial Memorandum.

Your Views

The call for views closed on 6 January 2023.

The Committee received no submissions to the call for views but agreed to write to the Health, Social Care and Sport Committee to highlight concerns expressed during the Committee's evidence session with the Scottish Parliamentary Corporate Body during its Budget Scrutiny 2023-24 and to inform that Committee's scrutiny of the Bill at Stage 1. Read the letter here:

Letter from the Convener to the Convener of the Health, Social Care and Sport Committee of 31 January 2023.