Chamber and committees

We now want to talk about the transfer of services. Paul O’Kane has questions on that.

We should be finishing in a couple of minutes, but with everyone’s permission, I will extend the meeting by about 10 minutes, because we still have one area of questioning to go—monitoring of the national care service, which Evelyn Tweed will ask about.

I thank the witnesses and my colleagues for their participation this morning. Our next meeting—

Carol, you have questions about that.

Stephanie Callaghan has questions on the role of the SPSO. We dipped into that a little with Rosemary Agnew, in response to my questions on earlier evidence from the Information Commissioner’s Office, but if you would like to ask your questions, that would be great.

We are all listening to you, Rosemary, and what you have said chimes with what we heard on our Aberdeen visit in particular. Camphill Scotland staff talked about residents in their care who, when they reach the age of 60 or 65, might have to transfer into services that Camphill Scotland could not offer because of their age. Thank you for bringing that up.

I think that Lynsey Cleland wants to come in on that.

Emma, you have some questions. If you could direct them to particular witnesses, that would be great.

If any of the witnesses wants to come in on something that they have been asked, even if they have not been named by the member, they should signal to me and I will bring them in.

Okay. We will move on to the final question, which is from Gillian Mackay.

I will stick with you, Carol, because I think that you have a question or two about joint inspections.

You mention some reserved areas, so I can imagine that, constitutionally, that might not be possible. The idea of a single patient record—I do not think that anyone is really calling it that; it is more of a single interface that enables access to all the relevant systems that hold all the data—is not just in the bill, but is part of a wider strategy.

I see Paula Fraser nodding.