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Health, Social Care and Sport Committee [Draft]
Meeting date: 17 September 2024
Joe FitzPatrick
That makes sense, but do you have any idea about when it might be?
Health, Social Care and Sport Committee [Draft]
Meeting date: 17 September 2024
Joe FitzPatrick
Just the ones that have been restricted—puberty blockers, but that might be quite coarse language for them.
Health, Social Care and Sport Committee [Draft]
Meeting date: 17 September 2024
Joe FitzPatrick
Those are the ones that I mean.
Health, Social Care and Sport Committee [Draft]
Meeting date: 17 September 2024
Joe FitzPatrick
Do you have any thoughts on possible timescales?
Health, Social Care and Sport Committee [Draft]
Meeting date: 17 September 2024
Joe FitzPatrick
I will go back to the questions that we had earlier, when we were talking about hormone treatment. Other panel members gave us some answers, but we thought that Dr Crighton, who has just arrived, would be more able to give us answers on how young people in Scotland might access clinical trials and what such trials might look like. Thank you, Dr Crighton, for making it along, in spite of the challenges.
Health, Social Care and Sport Committee
Meeting date: 10 September 2024
Joe FitzPatrick
Is the data on what is spent not in the outturn accounts that the finance secretary puts out every year?
Health, Social Care and Sport Committee
Meeting date: 10 September 2024
Joe FitzPatrick
I will pick up on the idea of preventative spend, preventative work and monitoring what is and is not working. This Parliament is responsible for outcomes around health and care, but we do not have control of all the inputs. Decisions that are made in another place—such as the decision to have 14 years of austerity and the decision that is likely to be made today on the winter fuel payment—have an impact on the health of vulnerable people in Scotland. How do we know that the outcomes that we see mean that our preventative work has not worked? Perhaps it has worked, because, due to the actions of Westminster Governments over a number of years, the situation would have been much worse if we had not done that work, even though the outcomes make it look as though it has not worked.
Health, Social Care and Sport Committee
Meeting date: 10 September 2024
Joe FitzPatrick
Briefly, on the point about tracking the spend to ensure that we get the outcomes that we hope for, should we look to any international examples to see whether other places do this better? There will be differences, but can we learn something from them that will help Scotland to do this better?
Standards, Procedures and Public Appointments Committee [Draft]
Meeting date: 5 September 2024
Joe FitzPatrick
No, I am fine, convener.
Standards, Procedures and Public Appointments Committee [Draft]
Meeting date: 5 September 2024
Joe FitzPatrick
On that last point, we know that, in the Westminster election that we have just had, a number of people did not manage to cast their vote because they did not have proof of identification. Is there an opportunity to consider whether the UK Government might work with you on a digital polling card, which might help folk who do not have a passport or driving licence and who are too late to apply for something else? Might something come out of that?