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I thank the witnesses for their evidence this morning and I am grateful for the information that they have given the committee. It will certainly be very useful in our scrutiny of the proposed stage 2 amendments.

I briefly suspend the meeting to allow for a changeover of witnesses.

Before I ask my question, I put on record my entry in the register of members’ interests: I hold a bank nurse contract with NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde.

I suppose that this follows on a bit from what Carol Mochan asked. Are there any particular amendments or broad areas of focus that you would like the Scottish Government to prioritise as the bill progresses?

Thank you. I thank the witnesses for attending today. Your evidence has been very helpful to the committee’s scrutiny of these stage 2 amendments.

I suspend briefly for a changeover of panels.

I call Emma Harper.

Does Sandesh Gulhane have any further questions?

I thank the witnesses for their evidence. It has been a good contribution to the committee’s scrutiny of the proposed amendments at stage 2.

Next week, the committee will continue to take oral evidence on the Scottish Government’s proposed stage 2 amendments to the National Care Service (Scotland) Bill with three further panels of witnesses.

That concludes the public part of our meeting today.

Emma Harper has a supplementary.

Agenda item 3 is our next evidence-taking sessions as part of our scrutiny of the Scottish Government’s proposed stage 2 amendments to the National Care Service (Scotland) Bill.

I welcome to the committee Fiona Davies, who is chief executive of NHS Highland, and Karen Reid, who is chief executive of NHS Education for Scotland. Both witnesses are also board chief executive leads of the national health service board chief executives group and are representing that group today. We are also joined online by Julie Murray, who is the chief officer of East Renfrewshire health and social care partnership, who is representing Health and Social Care Scotland.

We will move straight to questions, starting with Sandesh Gulhane.

Thank you. I thought that Tess White wanted to ask a supplementary, but that is not the case. I therefore call Paul Sweeney.

We continue our scrutiny of the Scottish Government’s proposed stage 2 amendments to the National Care Service (Scotland) Bill with a second panel of witnesses. I welcome to the committee Rosemary Agnew, the Scottish Public Services Ombudsman, Maree Allison, who is the chief executive of the Scottish Social Services Council, Edith Macintosh, who is the deputy chief executive and executive director for strategy and improvement at the Care Inspectorate, and Robbie Pearson, who is the chief executive of Healthcare Improvement Scotland. We will move straight to questions.