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Is the idea to reach out to members of the wider public who might have been through the healthcare system in relation to menopause and to get feedback, through public consultation, on what the plan should look like?

Thank you. We now move on to questions about technology that is being used during the pandemic, and its future.

We have Ms Constance coming before the committee next week, and we look forward to asking her questions on that specific area. Again, I thank you for your time this morning.

Before we move to questions from Sandesh Gulhane, I have a follow-up question. One of the trickier balances that social care providers must strike is between the protection of their residents and clients from infection with Covid, and their psychological and more general wellbeing, which is helped by allowing visitors and contact with loved ones, as well as the social aspect of their work. How can we support social care providers to make those judgment calls?

Anne’s law is the ability for a resident to have one close contact—is that correct?

I welcome everyone to the Health, Social Care and Sport committee’s second meeting of 2021. Our first item today is to invite Stephanie Callaghan to declare any interests that are relevant to the committee’s remit.

That concludes our meeting in public today. At our next meeting on 7 September, we will take evidence from the Cabinet Secretary for Health and Social Care on his priorities for session 6.

Our second item is to decide whether to take items 3, 4 and 5 in private. Those items are: consideration of our approach to the Transvaginal Mesh Removal (Cost Reimbursement) (Scotland) Bill, pre-budget scrutiny and development of our work programme. Do members agree? I will take silence and nodding as agreement.

Members indicated agreement.

Our next task, under agenda item 3, is to choose a deputy convener. The Parliament has agreed that only members of the Scottish Labour Party are eligible for nomination as deputy convener of the committee. I invite members of that party to nominate one of their number for the post.

Thank you, David, and thank you, colleagues. I am very pleased to be chosen as convener of the Health, Social Care and Sport Committee. I look forward to working with you all.

This is not a declaration of interests of the kind that my colleagues have made, but I should probably put on record that I have a daughter who is a student midwife at the Robert Gordon University and is currently working in placements in health boards across Scotland. It is best that I declare that.

We will be able to go back to Stephanie Callaghan’s interests when she has logged in to the meeting again. If people can let me know in the chat box when she is in, we can get that done.