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HANSARDHealth and Care Bill (Fourth sitting)Q Obviously, we have heard a lot of discussion about voices that are missing or not listened to, so a sub-group approach might actually be a model for other areas to think about…09 Sept 2021HANSARDHealth and Care Bill (Fourth sitting)Q Do you feel that there will be enough evaluation of what works and what has not worked within the structures that are being proposed through audit and formal evaluation? Dame…09 Sept 2021HANSARDHealth and Care Bill (Fourth sitting)Q Could I ask you a question, Ed? Obviously, you talked there about better outcomes. Regardless of who is judging it, you need evidence for that, and there are two aspects here to…09 Sept 2021HANSARDHealth and Care Bill (Fourth sitting)Q But you do think there would be a role for analysing data? My background is breast cancer. You know that what chemo you use and what surgery you did is going to affect the…09 Sept 2021HANSARDHealth and Care Bill (Fourth sitting)Q A brief question to Andy: there has been discussion over recent years about the need for greater preventative public health. Do you think there is enough discussion or enabling…09 Sept 2021HANSARDHealth and Care Bill (Fourth sitting)Q I want to look at the Health Services Safety Investigations Body, which is discussed in part 4 of the Bill. Obviously, you have been involved in the past with whistleblowers,…09 Sept 2021HANSARDHealth and Care Bill (Fourth sitting)Q When we took evidence from Keith Conradi, he said that obviously the learning from the safe space is in the reports, so there is discussion. Obviously there is no naming of…09 Sept 2021HANSARDHealth and Care Bill (Fourth sitting)Q HSSIB does not remove the duty of candour or the need for a local trust or hospital to investigate. It should not remove the need for significant adverse event inquiries and…09 Sept 2021HANSARDHealth and Care Bill (Fourth sitting)But in what way—09 Sept 2021HANSARDHealth and Care Bill (Fourth sitting)Q May I start with you, Gerry? Do you think the provisions in the Bill will bring about genuine integration of health and social care, which is something that has been talked…09 Sept 2021HANSARDHealth and Care Bill (Fourth sitting)Q A common theme that we have heard throughout both days of discussion is about how to capture the voices and the understanding from such a broad landscape within health and…09 Sept 2021HANSARDHealth and Care Bill (Fourth sitting)Q As you say, we often think of the frail elderly when we think of social care, but is it not the case that the need for social care among working-age and younger people—you…09 Sept 2021HANSARDHealth and Care Bill (Fourth sitting)Q So is there a bit of the Bill you would want to change? If we let you write an amendment, what would you write? Stephen Chandler: I will come back to you on that. I cannot…09 Sept 2021HANSARDHealth and Care Bill (Third sitting)I remain a member of the BMA.09 Sept 2021HANSARDHealth and Care Bill (Third sitting)Q Obviously, because of the duty of balancing budgets, one of the frictions within the system is going to be where an area that is managing its budget has to collaborate with a…09 Sept 2021HANSARDHealth and Care Bill (Third sitting)Q Thank you very much, Mrs Murray. I will ask each of you the same question. Obviously, the aim of the Committee is to improve the Bill and bring in voices. Sara, if you could…09 Sept 2021HANSARDHealth and Care Bill (Third sitting)Thank you very much. Certainly, for some of the projects in Scotland around quality improvement or patient safety, the involvement of staff has actually made that work. Dr…09 Sept 2021HANSARDHealth and Care Bill (Third sitting)Q Do you not think that creating the overarching ICB is meant to look at that budget in a more holistic way? Dr Chaand Nagpaul: It is only looking at it—like sitting around the…09 Sept 2021HANSARDHealth and Care Bill (Third sitting)Q My second and final question to you both is about the healthcare safety investigations body. I was on the pre-legislative scrutiny Committee for it and I know there will be a…09 Sept 2021HANSARDHealth and Care Bill (Third sitting)Q And yourself, Sara? Sara Gorton: The HSSIB is not an area that we have covered and focused on in our response, but like the BMA we are strongly supportive of attempts to drive a…09 Sept 2021