Chamber and committees

Thank you. My colleagues will want to come in on a lot of the detail of what you have said. We will come back to many of the issues that you have brought up.

I remind the witnesses that, if anyone wants to come in on a specific question as they hear it being asked, those who are online should put an R in the chat box and those here in front of us should indicate as much—as Andy Miller has helpfully done.

The final set of questions comes from Evelyn Tweed.

That was mentioned by the previous panel as well, and by a few other people.

We have Dr Gould back. The last word is for you, Dr Gould, before we wind up.

Given all your wider concerns, which we totally appreciate, we are keen to know what your message would be to the Government as it starts its co-design process after the passing of the bill, to help somebody in a remote and rural area to be involved in that co-design. What—practically—could the Government do?

Thank you. That is a good note to end on.

That brings our formal meeting to a close. At our next meeting, the committee will continue its scrutiny of the National Care Service (Scotland) Bill with two further evidence sessions, which will focus on related services, public protection, older people and Anne’s law.

I thank everyone who joined us in Glasgow today—everyone who was involved in the formal meeting, Quarriers for hosting us, and everyone whom we met in the centre of Glasgow this morning. I thank everyone for their time; it has been hugely helpful. This type of outreach and going out to different places in Scotland as much as possible can only help to make it a better scrutiny process, so I thank everyone for helping us in that regard.

It does. I will go to Hannah Tweed next.

Emma, do you want to pick up on what Andy Miller said before I bring in Dr Nolan and Dr Gould?

We do not need to wait for a co-design process to bring that out, because it already exists.

Thank you very much.

We will go to Karen Sheridan, who is online, for her initial reflections on the review and the bill, and how they do or do not work together.