Parliamentary questions can be asked by any MSP to the Scottish Government or the Scottish Parliamentary Corporate Body. The questions provide a means for MSPs to get factual and statistical information.
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To ask the Scottish Government what information it has regarding the five issues that have attracted the largest amount of legal actions against NHS Scotland since 1999.
To ask the Scottish Government what sanctions are available where clinicians are found to have provided misleading information to patients or have recorded this on patients' notes.
To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to question S5F-03625 by Nicola Sturgeon on 10 October 2019 (Official Report, c.12), in light of the First Minister's comment that "clinicians will visit the United States in November...and remain willing to meet [the mesh surgeon] Dr Veronikis, if he agrees to reconsider his position", if this meeting does go ahead and Dr Veronikis agrees to come to Scotland, what the earliest possible date could be for him to start carrying out operations.
To ask the Scottish Government what its position is on whether it is ethically bound to grant legal aid to the mesh-injured women seeking legal recourse for their injuries.
To ask the Scottish Government what information it has regarding how many legal cases related to mesh injury have been settled out of court.
To ask the Scottish Government whether mesh-injured women who settle legal cases out of court are required to sign non-disclosure agreements.
To ask the Scottish Government what statistical information the Scottish mesh clinician team will gather prior to its visit to the US in November 2019.
To ask the Scottish Government what information it has regarding whether Scotland-based surgeons have provided the US mesh surgeon, Dr Veronikis, with portfolios of their mesh removal skills.
To ask the Scottish Government what type of employment contract has been discussed for the commissioning of international mesh expertise.
To ask the Scottish Government what discussions it has had with Scotland-based mesh surgeons regarding the uses of techniques that are reportedly higher-risk, such as muscle-cutting approaches.