Meeting of the Parliament 17 March 2026 [Draft]
I thank the Scottish Government for working with me on my amendment. At stage 2, a number of members proposed amendments that would have required the production of guidance. The proposals for that guidance covered a range of issues, and I thank the minister for working with me on amendment 6, which provides a single requirement and lists issues that may be included in that guidance.
The focus is on guidance that is appropriate to businesses, rather than on matters that are more suited to clinical guidance or judgment and that might interfere with the professional and clinical guidance that is rightly issued by the professional bodies, royal colleges or regulators of healthcare professionals. Consideration of any relevant clinical guidance would be part of the role that should be undertaken by any healthcare professionals involved in procedures.
Amendment 6 would place a duty on the Scottish ministers to
“issue guidance about the provision of non-surgical procedures”
and that guidance may include information about the requirements that are imposed by part 1 of the bill and about the steps that providers have taken to comply with those requirements. That guidance must be published and may be revised or revoked.
I urge members to support amendment 6.