Chamber
Meeting of the Parliament 15 May 2025
15 May 2025 · S6 · Meeting of the Parliament
Item of business
Appointment of Patient Safety Commissioner for Scotland
The next item of business is consideration of motion S6M-17485, in the name of Paul Sweeney, on the appointment of the Patient Safety Commissioner for Scotland.
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In the same item of business
The Presiding Officer (Alison Johnstone)
NPA
The next item of business is consideration of motion S6M-17485, in the name of Paul Sweeney, on the appointment of the Patient Safety Commissioner for Scotla...
Paul Sweeney (Glasgow) (Lab)
Lab
Presiding Officer, as a member of the cross-party selection panel that you established under the Parliament’s standing orders, I am delighted to speak to the...
Stephen Kerr (Central Scotland) (Con)
Con
Will the commissioner’s office be a safe haven for whistleblowers? There are many areas of public interest that are raised by whistleblowers that, as things ...
Paul Sweeney
Lab
The commissioner’s job is to look at systemic issues. Nonetheless, whistleblowers will be an important factor in identifying issues of a systemic nature that...
The Cabinet Secretary for Health and Social Care (Neil Gray)
SNP
I reassure Stephen Kerr that very clear processes and pathways are available to people in the health service to be able to whistleblow. Each health board has...
Paul Sweeney
Lab
The commissioner’s remit covers all healthcare providers that are operating in Scotland, including the national health service and NHS-contracted and indepen...
Stephen Kerr
Con
On a point of order, Presiding Officer. I apologise. When I intervened to talk about whistleblowing, I should have indicated that I am the director of Whistl...
The Presiding Officer
NPA
Thank you, Mr Kerr. Your comments are on the record. The question on the motion that we have just debated will be put at decision time.