Chamber and committees

As Paul has no more questions, we move to our final theme, which is resources and resourcing. The questions will be led by Sandesh Gulhane.

I am going to bring in some colleagues off the back of Emma Harper’s questioning. Colleagues, I would like you to direct your questions to individuals, but if a witness wants to come in, they should just let me know and I will bring them in if they have something to add. We have a lot of people who want to ask questions.

Thank you. We will move on to questions on monitoring and information gathering, which have been mentioned already briefly.

Thank you for telling us that, Fraser.

Irene Oldfather joins us online to talk about mesh survivors.

We will move on to questions about individual complaints and how you are managing that aspect.

A few members want to come in on the back of that. Can we have very short questions? We have a lot of themes to get through in the hour, which will, I feel, pass very quickly.

We will hear quick questions from Emma Harper and Stephanie Callaghan before I move on to the next theme.

We will move on to questions from Sandesh Gulhane on the English patient safety commissioner.

David Torrance will lead questions about the appointment process.

The next item is our first oral evidence session on the Patient Safety Commissioner for Scotland Bill.

Today we will take evidence from Baroness Cumberlege, who led the independent medicines and medical devices safety review.?Joining the committee remotely are Lady Cumberlege, the review’s chair, and Simon Whale, who was a review team member and communications lead.

I will move straight to asking Baroness Cumberlege a question about the review. One of the review’s recommendations was on the need for a patient safety commissioner. That is happening in NHS England. Through the bill, the Scottish Government proposes that Scotland will also have a patient safety commissioner. What, in the review, led you to conclude that a patient safety commissioner would be a good way of addressing the public’s issues with patient safety?

I thank Baroness Cumberlege and Simon Whale for their attendance, which has been extremely helpful and for the tremendous work that they have undertaken on the review so far. Please pass on our best wishes to Henrietta Hughes, as we begin our process of getting a patient safety commissioner for Scotland.