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Stephanie Callaghan SNP Committee
29 Nov 2022
National Care Service (Scotland) Bill: Stage1
I would like to pick up on that. When we visited Granite Care Consortium, the providers themselves were stepping care up and down without having to reference back, which I think Rachel Cackett mentioned earlier, and we saw how important that had been. In the final report, ther...
Stephanie Callaghan (Uddingston and Bellshill) (SNP) SNP Committee
16 May 2023
Complex Mesh Surgical Service
Greig, you said that systems have developed significantly since 2020, and I agree with that. However, women still find things confusing, misleading and inadequate. They have certainly described the service as that in the past, and it is not the one-stop shop that they expected...
Stephanie Callaghan SNP Chamber
11 Jan 2024
Public Service Values
That is certainly not the evidence that we, in the Local Government, Housing and Planning Committee, hear directly from them. That collaborative effort between national and local government, operating within a shared framework and aligned policies, only enhances our capacity ...
Stephanie Callaghan (Uddingston and Bellshill) (SNP) SNP Chamber
14 Sep 2021
Tokyo Paralympics
I thank Karen Adam and all the other members who have spoken. Scottish Disability Sport and its partners across sport governance, local authorities, health, education and beyond continue to make great strides in supporting inclusion in physical activity and sport. I commend t...
Stephanie Callaghan (Uddingston and Bellshill) (SNP) SNP Chamber
09 Nov 2021
Long Covid
I thank Alex Cole-Hamilton for bringing this important topic to the chamber. The numbers of people with long Covid are high, and that is a major public health matter. More than 75,000 people in Scotland are currently estimated to be suffering from long Covid and, as the pandem...
Stephanie Callaghan (Uddingston and Bellshill) (SNP) SNP Chamber
07 Dec 2021
Maternity Services (Moray)
A section of the recommendations references “The importance of culture to quality and safety in any service”. That is not only beneficial to service users but of equal importance to staff. Will the cabinet secretary give an indication of what work will be required to progres...
Stephanie Callaghan SNP Committee
08 Mar 2022
Alternative Pathways to Primary Care
One point that has been made is that service design should be informed by evidence. How can we build a more effective evidence base to improve service design? What lessons do we need to learn to improve the future design of alternative pathways? That question is for Dr William...
Stephanie Callaghan (Uddingston and Bellshill) (SNP) SNP Chamber
12 May 2022
International Nurses Day
I, too, thank Jackie Baillie for lodging her motion. This is a day for celebration. It is a day to celebrate the dedication, kindness and passion of nurses in Scotland and beyond. Nurses are people who keep the health service going, no matter what happens. They deserve our rec...
Stephanie Callaghan SNP Committee
20 Sep 2022
Pre-budget Scrutiny 2023-24
It would be incredibly helpful to have that. Professor Bell, you have picked up on a point about the difference that prevention strategies could make. Would you expect preventative care and preventative strategies to make quite an impact going forward? Are there concerns arou...
Stephanie Callaghan SNP Committee
20 Sep 2022
Pre-budget Scrutiny 2023-24
Yes, it was about the protective impact of preventative measures, but I also asked about service delivery—for example, about concerns over whether there are increasing demands on staff pay and therefore less money to be spent on service delivery, and how that might be tackled.
Stephanie Callaghan SNP Committee
20 Sep 2022
Pre-budget Scrutiny 2023-24
I have a question for Professor Bell. When we talk about the national care service, we are focusing on what matters to individuals and on supporting people to achieve the outcomes that they want. My thinking is that that is about their health and wellbeing. If they feel better...
Stephanie Callaghan SNP Committee
27 Sep 2022
Winter Planning
My question is for Donna Bell. Last week, I met the chief executive officer of Enable Scotland and we spoke about the high-quality self-directed health and social care that is provided through Enable Scotland’s successful personal assistant model, which is an example of how fo...
Stephanie Callaghan SNP Committee
01 Nov 2022
National Care Service (Scotland) Bill: Stage 1
Are you saying that you do not really see the value of a co-production approach through the national care service?
Stephanie Callaghan (Uddingston and Bellshill) (SNP) SNP Chamber
03 Nov 2022
Allied Health Professions Day 2022
I thank Carol Mochan. I am delighted that we were able to reschedule the debate so that we can celebrate allied health professionals. From what I saw, it was definitely a party last time, and I hope that AHPs will all be partying again tonight. When we think of our NHS, it is...
Stephanie Callaghan SNP Committee
08 Nov 2022
National Care Service (Scotland) Bill: Stage 1
That was really great—what you said was dead helpful. The point about protections for chief social work officers was well made, although I note that it could apply to heads of service as well, and not just at the very top level. My question picks up on Gillian Mackay’s points...
Stephanie Callaghan SNP Committee
08 Nov 2022
National Care Service (Scotland) Bill: Stage 1
I noted that COSLA’s submission talked about the bill failing to “address the difficult issue set out in the Independent Review of Adult Social Care, that of profit within the sector.” Its submission also said that “Private sector provision ... accounts for 76 per cent of c...
Stephanie Callaghan (Uddingston and Bellshill) (SNP) SNP Chamber
10 Nov 2022
Alternative Pathways to Primary Care
I thank primary care staff and everyone who provided evidence to our committee, including patients who told us their personal stories. I also thank the other members of the committee, especially our convener, Gillian Martin. As other members have said, primary care is the bac...
Stephanie Callaghan SNP Committee
09 Nov 2022
National Care Service (Scotland) Bill: Stage 1
As I understand it, there will be changes to children’s services, depending on where those services sit now—whether the structure in place is an IJB or a lead organisation—and regardless of whether those are included in the national care service. Are you saying that, on balanc...
Stephanie Callaghan SNP Committee
09 Nov 2022
National Care Service (Scotland) Bill: Stage 1
My question is for either Tony Buchanan or Mike Burns. I agree that integration has brought about really positive changes for families, and I share the passion expressed by all the witnesses for providing the best possible support. However, we need to go back to the beginning...
Stephanie Callaghan SNP Committee
09 Nov 2022
National Care Service (Scotland) Bill: Stage 1
Does that link in to asset-based community development? Would we be looking only at children and young people and families or would we also look at all the organisations that are involved? A good example of real co-design and co-production in my area is the autism resources co...
Stephanie Callaghan (Uddingston and Bellshill) (SNP) SNP Committee
15 Nov 2022
National Care Service (Scotland) Bill: Stage 1
I thank the witnesses for being here this morning. Yesterday, we paid a visit to Granite Care Consortium in Aberdeen, which consists of 10 providers. People from the health and social care partnership were there, too. They talked quite a lot about moving away from the time-an...
Stephanie Callaghan SNP Committee
16 Nov 2022
National Care Service (Scotland) Bill: Stage 1
Martin, do you believe that the national care service presents an opportunity for third sector organisations, as well as people who have lived experience, to work right at the centre of care boards and to be part of the co-design process, examining new policy and delivery so t...
Stephanie Callaghan SNP Committee
16 Nov 2022
National Care Service (Scotland) Bill: Stage 1
You have talked a bit about the challenges. We heard concerns from Ross McGuffie that, if adult services are part of the national care service, having children’s services sitting outwith it could create problems with the approach to whole-family support. He spoke about service...
Stephanie Callaghan SNP Committee
23 Nov 2022
National Care Service (Scotland) Bill: Stage 1
Minister, you have already talked about local care boards continuing to shape changes at local level. To what degree do you expect that ministers will be responsible for service delivery and directing those care boards? How will any shift in the powers and responsibilities of ...
Stephanie Callaghan SNP Committee
29 Nov 2022
National Care Service (Scotland) Bill: Stage1
Fanchea—I hope that I am pronouncing your name properly—it is helpful that your submission sets out three clear priorities for the bill to discover and deliver on: empowering individuals to have more choice, clear leadership and support for using digital service design, and th...
Stephanie Callaghan (Uddingston and Bellshill) (SNP) SNP Committee
13 Dec 2022
National Care Service (Scotland) Bill: Stage 1
My question is for Mark Hazelwood, too. Palliative care brings so much comfort and reassurance to families—in fact, it is priceless—but how well are things working in relation to keeping people at home as much as possible? You talked earlier about one in three hospital beds be...
Stephanie Callaghan SNP Committee
13 Dec 2022
National Care Service (Scotland) Bill: Stage 1
I will go to Mark Hazelwood first, because he has mentioned a couple of times having the data to be able to make decisions. I realise that we have a wide range of experiences here—different types of people with different challenges—and we have always spoken about lived experie...
Stephanie Callaghan SNP Committee
20 Dec 2022
National Care Service (Scotland) Bill: Stage 1
One of the barriers to that seems to be the idea of incorporating community health primary care services and taking that kind of public health approach. If we are saying that no health staff will be transferred into the national care service, can that really be achieved?
Stephanie Callaghan SNP Committee
09 May 2023
National Care Service (Scotland) Bill (Stage 1 Timetable)
I have a question about methodology. Are you looking at using “The Scottish Approach to Service Design”? I can see Donna Bell nodding away there, so the answer to that is yes. Are the public sector and other stakeholders in a good place to coalesce around that just now?
Stephanie Callaghan SNP Committee
09 May 2023
National Care Service (Scotland) Bill (Stage 1 Timetable)
Thanks very much for allowing me back in, convener. Minister, you mentioned self-directed support, and many of the witnesses have spoken about self-directed support being an excellent initiative and the legislation being excellent. That initiative is along the same lines as t...
Stephanie Callaghan SNP Committee
20 Jun 2023
Scrutiny of NHS Boards (NHS 24 and the Scottish Ambulance Service)
We have heard about a lot of fantastic work that is going on locally and nationally. For example, there is the introduction of the hospital ambulance liaison officers—HALO is a very apt acronym. Consultant Connect is really interesting. Direct contact between the Scottish Ambu...
Stephanie Callaghan (Uddingston and Bellshill) (SNP) SNP Chamber
28 Sep 2023
Alcohol and Drug Deaths (“See Beyond—See the Lives—Scotland” Campaign)
I thank Miles Briggs for securing this debate during international recovery month and for bravely sharing his experiences today. I am also beyond grateful to all the organisations that are involved in the powerful and vital “See Beyond—See the Lives—Scotland” campaign and to t...
Stephanie Callaghan SNP Committee
03 Oct 2023
National Care Service (Scotland) Bill: Stage 1
You are absolutely right. I am sure that we can all agree on how valuable social care is, and the pathways that you spoke about are so important, too. I would like to ask you about the end of life. Not everyone will recover, and a substantial portion of the current health and...
Stephanie Callaghan SNP Committee
03 Oct 2023
National Care Service (Scotland) Bill: Stage 1
Are you getting the feedback to help to inform the charter through the national care service forums or is there more work to be done in that area?
Stephanie Callaghan SNP Committee
24 Oct 2023
National Care Service (Scotland) Bill: Stage 1
Last year, the Scottish Government said that co-design would produce a charter of rights, a national complaints process and an electronic health and care record, but not services. At this point, are you clear which aspects of the national care service are being co-designed, wh...
Stephanie Callaghan (Uddingston and Bellshill) (SNP) SNP Committee
31 Oct 2023
National Care Service (Scotland) Bill: Stage 1
Thank you, convener. I thank the panel members for coming along this morning. As we know, stage 1 of the bill has been extended to find compromise and consensus. What impact do you expect the agreement between the Scottish Government and the Convention of Scottish Local Autho...
Stephanie Callaghan (Uddingston and Bellshill) (SNP) SNP Committee
28 Sep 2021
Social Care Stakeholder Session
With the national care service, we are talking about a significant increase in scope, and I want to ask Derek Feeley and Judith Proctor about the proposed community health and social care boards. How can we ensure that they have the breadth, capacity and ability to collaborate...
Stephanie Callaghan SNP Chamber
28 Oct 2021
Portfolio Question Time · Rural Economy (Workforce)
Does the cabinet secretary agree with me that the unfettered access afforded by the Tory UK Government to Australia and New Zealand in recent trade deals will merely add to the workforce pressures that have been identified, which will place further constraints on the rural sec...
Stephanie Callaghan SNP Committee
02 Nov 2021
Transvaginal Mesh Removal (Cost Reimbursement) (Scotland) Bill: Stage 1
Thanks very much. That is really helpful. I want to ask about the team making decisions and whether the best care and treatment available can be delivered within the specialist service. Is that completely down to the team? What choice will women have in relation to onward ref...
Stephanie Callaghan (Uddingston and Bellshill) (SNP) SNP Chamber
04 Nov 2021
Abortion Clinic Buffer Zones
I, too, thank Gillian Mackay for bringing her motion to the chamber for debate. Women in Scotland have a fundamental right to access pregnancy healthcare services and they should have the right to access them without harassment and intimidation. The targeting and harassment of...
Stephanie Callaghan (Uddingston and Bellshill) (SNP) SNP Committee
17 Nov 2021
Additional Support Needs and Care Experienced Young People (Impact of Covid-19)
I am just writing down little important points that Linda O’Neill made, or they will go out of my head—including targeted support for children in the area that she mentioned. I declare that I am a councillor on South Lanarkshire Council. I am also a parent to autistics. This ...
Stephanie Callaghan (Uddingston and Bellshill) (SNP) SNP Chamber
14 Dec 2021
Drugs Services
Will health boards be encouraged to carry out their own local consultations? The increase in our services must be progressed in a way that best meets the needs and circumstances of our local service users.
Stephanie Callaghan SNP Chamber
20 Jan 2022
First Minister’s Question Time · Care Home Places
Given the prevalence of private care home provision across Uddingston and Bellshill, and Scotland more widely, how will the national care service deliver improved terms and conditions for private care home staff and ensure high-quality care for residents?
Stephanie Callaghan (Uddingston and Bellshill) (SNP) SNP Committee
18 Jan 2022
Health and Wellbeing of Children and Young People
Good morning. It is good to see the witnesses here this morning. It was good to hear Shelley Buckley and Joanne Smith talking about neurodiversity and the long wait for help with quite basic things such as issues around sleep, positive parenting and communications with schools...
Stephanie Callaghan SNP Committee
25 Jan 2022
National Planning Framework 4
Earlier, Irene Beautyman mentioned the work done by the Improvement Service and Public Health Scotland on spatial planning health and wellbeing outcomes. How can the proposed outcomes be embedded in the framework so that they are used consistently?
Stephanie Callaghan (Uddingston and Bellshill) (SNP) SNP Committee
22 Feb 2022
Social Care
We have spoken a lot about terms and conditions and culture. I am currently a councillor on South Lanarkshire Council. I know that one of the things that families want most is one front door for all services. However, that can be problematic when staff have different pay and c...
Stephanie Callaghan (Uddingston and Bellshill) (SNP) SNP Chamber
23 Feb 2022
National Health Service Dentistry
Will the member take an intervention?
Stephanie Callaghan SNP Committee
08 Mar 2022
Alternative Pathways to Primary Care
My second question is for Wendy Panton. What specific actions should be prioritised to improve service delivery? Should scaling up successful things to national level be a priority? For example, our papers mention an Audit Scotland case study about Highland Council’s introduct...
Stephanie Callaghan SNP Committee
08 Mar 2022
Alternative Pathways to Primary Care
The question was about what specific actions should be prioritised to improve service delivery. The second part was about whether that approach should be one of the priorities.
Stephanie Callaghan SNP Committee
29 Mar 2022
Alternative Pathways to Primary Care
I have a final question. It is nice and short, but I am not sure that the answer will be nice and short. What might the implications of the national care service be on capacity and workforce planning?
Stephanie Callaghan (Uddingston and Bellshill) (SNP) SNP Chamber
21 Apr 2022
General Question Time · National Health Service (Rural Areas)
Recruitment of new staff to the health service will play a crucial role in supporting the recovery of our NHS. Can the cabinet secretary provide an update on progress since the launch of the recruitment drive in October, and can he outline how measures in the “National Workfor...
Stephanie Callaghan (Uddingston and Bellshill) (SNP) SNP Committee
17 May 2022
Social Care
Yes. The recommendations in the 2019 fair work convention report went way beyond pay and conditions. Can you provide us with examples of, or information about, plans for how social care workers will be involved in the design, development and delivery of the service?
Stephanie Callaghan SNP Committee
31 May 2022
Health Inequalities
Inaudible.—national health service—
Stephanie Callaghan SNP Committee
31 May 2022
Health Inequalities
Apologies. My specific question was about the national health service and the series of different health professionals and consultants recording different information. How much of an issue is that? Is that being looked at?
Stephanie Callaghan SNP Committee
27 Sep 2022
Winter Planning
In relation to the cost of living crisis, the UK Government has made some changes recently, but those do not seem to do much to help the most vulnerable people. I am thinking, for example, about people who have prepayment meters, for whom the lights go off when the money runs ...
Stephanie Callaghan (Uddingston and Bellshill) (SNP) SNP Chamber
25 Oct 2022
Moray Maternity Services
How will NHS Grampian adopt robust clinical governance arrangements in the maternity service that fulfil the requirements of the clinical and care governance framework?
Stephanie Callaghan (Uddingston and Bellshill) (SNP) SNP Committee
25 Oct 2022
National Care Service (Scotland) Bill: Stage 1
We are very focused on wellbeing, but it seems from the data that all the countries have struggled to measure success in that regard. Does anywhere stand out as having done good work on that? Is there any work that we should be looking at and incorporating into what we are doing?
Stephanie Callaghan SNP Committee
25 Oct 2022
National Care Service (Scotland) Bill: Stage 1
Yes.
Stephanie Callaghan SNP Committee
25 Oct 2022
National Care Service (Scotland) Bill: Stage 1
I thank the panel for coming along. Sir Harry said early on that it is critical to ask people what matters to them and then to help them to achieve that, which can also save costs down the line. What further provisions could the bill include to ensure that the focus is on pers...
Stephanie Callaghan SNP Committee
25 Oct 2022
National Care Service (Scotland) Bill: Stage 1
Does anybody else feel that there is anything that we could include in the bill that would help to centre that?
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Health, Social Care and Sport Committee 29 November 2022

29 Nov 2022 · S6 · Health, Social Care and Sport Committee
Item of business
National Care Service (Scotland) Bill: Stage1
Callaghan, Stephanie SNP Uddingston and Bellshill Watch on SPTV
I would like to pick up on that. When we visited Granite Care Consortium, the providers themselves were stepping care up and down without having to reference back, which I think Rachel Cackett mentioned earlier, and we saw how important that had been. In the final report, there was also evidence of a reduced number of hospital admissions during the Covid pandemic. I appreciate that there are criticisms and concerns about moving to a national care service but, assuming that it will happen, are there positives that we can take from what you are doing in Aberdeen? Many such approaches could be implemented in the current system but are not, which seems to be where the real problem is. What are the biggest lessons that we can take away from what is currently happening in Aberdeen, as regards a national care service coming into effect and ensuring that other areas are picking up on those strengths?

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The Convener SNP
Our substantive item of business today is consideration of the National Care Service (Scotland) Bill. We will have two evidence sessions and both panels will...
Geri McCormick (Glasgow City Integration Joint Board)
Currently, all care groups are represented in our integration authority, the Glasgow IJB, and we have a healthy relationship, with contributions and discussi...
The Convener SNP
You said that the system is working well where you are, and you will want to take that good practice into any new system. Are there opportunities for care bo...
Geri McCormick
It is about facilitating time and providing resources for participation and contribution. It is about accessibility and opening up involvement to individuals...
The Convener SNP
You are talking about something more inclusive, with the resources being in place for the support that would enable that to happen.
Geri McCormick
Yes.
The Convener SNP
Sandra, it would be helpful to hear your views on how things are working in Aberdeen city and what opportunities a care board might bring.
Sandra MacLeod (Aberdeen City Health and Social Care Partnership)
In Aberdeen, we had a large review a few years ago of our care-at-home services in particular, which helped us to reshape our approach to strategic commissio...
The Convener SNP
Aberdeen has been held up as an example of a place where things are being done slightly differently. We visited Aberdeen three weeks ago and met the Granite ...
Sandra MacLeod
We have worked really hard with the Granite Care Consortium and it has been a really positive outcome for us in the city. Picking up on the points that colle...
The Convener SNP
Before I hand over to my colleagues, I have a question for Rachel Cackett. Rachel, in your submission, you make some points about the notion of care boards a...
Rachel Cackett (Coalition of Care and Support Providers in Scotland)
We have very good relationships with our providers and many of the current IJBs. However, my colleague has just brought up the issue of trust. You said that,...
The Convener SNP
That is helpful and it is a good start to the conversation about what we need to keep, where the gaps are and what our aspirations are for reform.
Stephanie Callaghan (Uddingston and Bellshill) (SNP) SNP
To pick up on what Rachel Cackett said, how much involvement is there now from community planning partnerships and people with lived experience on local impr...
Rachel Cackett
I suspect that my colleagues in the IJBs will be able to answer that far more fully. We are certainly looking at where providers are engaged and I think that...
Karen Hedge (Scottish Care)
It might be helpful for the committee to know that I used to be a local authority commissioner so I have sat on different seats around that table and have th...
Sandra MacLeod
I want to pick up on a couple of points. The first is on how IJBs are currently involved in community planning partnerships. In our local environment, in Abe...
Stephanie Callaghan SNP
I would like to pick up on that. When we visited Granite Care Consortium, the providers themselves were stepping care up and down without having to reference...
Sandra MacLeod
I think that it goes back to a key point that someone made earlier, about relationships and having mutual respect and a shared understanding that people need...
The Convener SNP
Emma, you wanted to come in on something that Sandra MacLeod said.
Emma Harper (South Scotland) (SNP) SNP
Yes, thanks. The time-and-task model came up during the committee’s visit to Dumfries. Euan McLeod, who is from the Dumfries team, said that the team is work...
Sandra MacLeod
A key thing, and one of the big drivers, is moving away from that model. We have done a lot of work locally on care management and in our hospitals, so that ...
Rachel Cackett
The examples that Sandra gave show the human face of social care. The bill is rooted in structure, but those examples show the ways in which social care matt...
Paul O’Kane (West Scotland) (Lab) Lab
I want to follow on from that by pulling some of the threads together and going back to first principles with the Feeley review, which Rachel Cackett mention...
Rachel Cackett
With the bill as it stands, as introduced, my answer would be no—it cannot achieve the aims of the Feeley review. With the bill as it could stand, my answer ...
Karen Hedge
Like Rachel Cackett, we, too, were excited when the independent review reported, and we, too, had done work with members—with everyone and their granny, in f...
Paul O’Kane Lab
I want to push you on your feelings about the distance between the Feeley review and the current bill. Is the bill focusing too much on structure and not eno...
Karen Hedge
Yes. That is partly to do with the consultation process that we have experienced. At Scottish Care’s recent care home conference, our members in the audience...
James Dornan (Glasgow Cathcart) (SNP) SNP
I have a question for Rachel Cackett. You have mentioned self-directed support a couple of times now, Rachel, and it seems to me that you are using it as an ...
Rachel Cackett
I agree with your final statement—it was a great policy with patchy roll-out. There is, therefore, a need to look at how we make a great policy work, without...