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The Official Report is a written record of public meetings of the Parliament and committees.  

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Dates of parliamentary sessions
  1. Session 1: 12 May 1999 to 31 March 2003
  2. Session 2: 7 May 2003 to 2 April 2007
  3. Session 3: 9 May 2007 to 22 March 2011
  4. Session 4: 11 May 2011 to 23 March 2016
  5. Session 5: 12 May 2016 to 5 May 2021
  6. Current session: 12 May 2021 to 12 December 2024
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Health, Social Care and Sport Committee

Seasonal Planning and Preparedness

Meeting date: 9 November 2021

Emma Harper

My next question is about avoiding harm. The submission from the Royal College of Emergency Medicine states:

“The data show that for every 67 patients waiting 8-12 hours, one of them ... will come to avoidable harm.”

Obviously, we need to think about how that can be avoided. Data on each harm that occurs is required to be entered into a system so that it can be tracked. I think that it is the Datix system, which I know because I am a former nurse who used to enter adverse events into that system. How do we ensure that our GPs and our doctors have a wider ability to utilise the system to learn so that harm can be avoided in the future?

Health, Social Care and Sport Committee

Transvaginal Mesh Removal (Cost Reimbursement) (Scotland) Bill: Stage 1

Meeting date: 2 November 2021

Emma Harper

Cabinet secretary, in your opening comments, you talked about Polish Scots and Pakistani Scots. What work will be done to help to engage women whose first language is not English and who might have experienced complications from mesh implants?

Health, Social Care and Sport Committee

Transvaginal Mesh Removal (Cost Reimbursement) (Scotland) Bill: Stage 1

Meeting date: 2 November 2021

Emma Harper

The bill is about reimbursement for women who have already paid for surgery. You represent the specialist mesh centre in Greater Glasgow. I read that 20,000 women had mesh implants in Scotland in the past 20 years and that some 600 have suffered agonising or debilitating complications. Can you assure the women watching this meeting that the specialist mesh centre will take a clear, person-centred approach? That would address some of the issues. Jackie Baillie mentioned one woman whose appointment will not be until July 2022. Is there a way to expedite that, so that there will be a truly person-centred approach?

Health, Social Care and Sport Committee

Transvaginal Mesh Removal (Cost Reimbursement) (Scotland) Bill: Stage 1

Meeting date: 2 November 2021

Emma Harper

Good morning, cabinet secretary, and thank you for giving us your time this morning. Given that the bill is on cost reimbursement for mesh removal, I am interested in women who have been affected and have already paid for surgery. Would women who raised the money through a crowdfunding platform still qualify for reimbursement?

Health, Social Care and Sport Committee

Transvaginal Mesh Removal (Cost Reimbursement) (Scotland) Bill: Stage 1

Meeting date: 2 November 2021

Emma Harper

Are you saying that women would not be excluded if they had been partially funded through a crowdfunder but were able to supply evidence that they had paid for a flight or transport or whatever from their own means?

Health, Social Care and Sport Committee

Transvaginal Mesh Removal (Cost Reimbursement) (Scotland) Bill: Stage 1

Meeting date: 2 November 2021

Emma Harper

Good morning, everybody. I am interested in how the fact that the specialist mesh removal service exists has been communicated to the health boards. How do they know that it exists?

Health, Social Care and Sport Committee

Transvaginal Mesh Removal (Cost Reimbursement) (Scotland) Bill: Stage 1

Meeting date: 2 November 2021

Emma Harper

I have a couple of wee follow-up questions. Last week, we heard that some general practitioners might need help to diagnose mesh complications. What help is being provided to primary care to enable GPs to know that the service exists? What help and support will be given to GPs so that they are better able to refer?

Health, Social Care and Sport Committee

Transvaginal Mesh Removal (Cost Reimbursement) (Scotland) Bill: Stage 1

Meeting date: 26 October 2021

Emma Harper

Good morning. I am interested in issues around total versus partial mesh removal. Some of the procedures are quite complicated and subsequent surgeries might be required. Does the bill cover the wider requirements of women who need concomitant surgeries?

Health, Social Care and Sport Committee

Transvaginal Mesh Removal (Cost Reimbursement) (Scotland) Bill: Stage 1

Meeting date: 26 October 2021

Emma Harper

We heard earlier about a person who needed additional time because of a pre-existing condition that needed to be managed with constrained thrombolytic therapy. If somebody required additional time because of additional health conditions, would that be included, too?

Health, Social Care and Sport Committee

Transvaginal Mesh Removal (Cost Reimbursement) (Scotland) Bill: Stage 1

Meeting date: 26 October 2021

Emma Harper

Greig Chalmers has already alluded to this issue. The financial memorandum says:

“It is expected, upon establishment of a scheme, that all applications will be made within one year of the scheme opening.”

I presume that that is because the scheme will be advertised on social media and because you will know who has had mesh implant surgery. Is the one-year timeframe narrow, or do you think that it is reasonable?