1. Decisions on taking business in private

The Committee will decide whether to take items 4 and 5 in private, and whether to consider oral evidence on the National Care Service Bill, taken at future meetings, in private at those meetings.

2. National Care Service (Scotland) Bill

The Committee will take evidence on the Bill at Stage 2 from—

• Keir Greenaway
  Senior Organiser
  GMB Scotland
• Simon Macfarlane
  Regional Manager
  UNISON
• Katie MacGregor
  Policy and Public Affairs Lead, Royal College of Occupational Therapists
  Allied Health Professions Federation Scotland (AHPFS)
• Colin Poolman
  Director
  Royal College of Nursing Scotland

and then from -

• Pauline Lunn
  Director, In Control Scotland
  National SDS Collaboration
• Stephen Morgan
  Chief Social Work Officer for Dumfries and Galloway
  Social Work Scotland
• Frank Reilly
  Independent Advisor (Adults and NCS)
  Scottish Association of Social Work (SASW)

3. Subordinate legislation

The Committee will consider the following negative instrument—

National Health Service (Free Prescriptions and Charges for Drugs and Appliances) (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 2024

4. National Care Service (Scotland) Bill

The Committee will consider the evidence it heard earlier under agenda item 2.

5. Assisted Dying for Terminally Ill Adults (Scotland) Bill

The Committee will consider its approach to the scrutiny of the Bill at Stage 1.