SCOTS Project - www.scottishcorpus.ac.uk Document : 1130 Title : Scottish Parliament: Committees: Health and Community Care: Minutes: Meeting 23, 2000 Author(s): Scottish Parliamentary Corporate Body Copyright holder(s): Scottish Parliamentary Corporate Body: © Scottish Parliamentary copyright material is reproduced with the permission of the Queen's Printer for Scotland on behalf of the Scottish Parliamentary Corporate Body. Text HEALTH AND COMMUNITY CARE COMMITTEE MINUTES 23rd Meeting, 2000 (Session 1) Wednesday 25 October 2000 Present: Malcolm Chisholm (deputy convener) Dorothy-Grace Elder Mr Duncan Hamilton Hugh Henry Margaret Jamieson Irene Oldfather Mary Scanlon Dr Richard Simpson Mrs Margaret Smith (Convener) Mrs Kay Ullrich Ben Wallace Also present: Ms Nicola Sturgeon, Shona Robison, Brian Adam and Susan Deacon. The meeting opened at 9.34am. Dr Richard Simpson declared that he is director of a nursing home company in England which is relevant to item 3. 1. Items in private: The Committee agreed to take items 7, 8, and 9 in private. 2. Arbuthnott Report: The Committee heard evidence from the Minister for Health and Community Care, Susan Deacon. The Committee was offered a briefing by the Executive on this subject. 3. Winter Bed Planning: The Committee heard evidence from The Minister for Health and Community Care. The Committee agreed to seek written clarification from the Executive on the expenditure of Grampian Health Board’s winter pressure funds and to forward any written questions that members wished to pursue for written reply. 4. Hepatitis C: The Committee heard evidence from The Minister for Health and Community Care. The Committee was offered a briefing by the Executive on this subject. The Committee noted that the Minister undertook to meet with the Haemophilia Society to discuss outstanding issues arising from the report. 5. Budget 2001-02: The Committee heard evidence from The Minister for Health and Community Care. 6. Subordinate Legislation: The Committee considered the following negative instrument and determined that it had no recommendation to make— The Food Irradiation Provisions (Scotland) Regulations 2000 (SSI 2000/309). The meeting was adjourned between 12:00 noon and 12:07pm. 7. Community Care Inquiry (in private): The Committee agreed to take this item at a private meeting on 1 November 2000. 8. Budget 2001-02 (in private): It was agreed that the Clerk would provide a draft response to the Scottish Executive for consideration by the Committee. 9. Legislation (in private): The Committee agreed the specification for an advisor on forthcoming legislation and agreed the order of preference of candidates. The meeting closed at 12.37pm Jennifer Smart Clerk to the Committe This work is protected by copyright. All rights reserved. The SCOTS Project and the University of Glasgow do not necessarily endorse, support or recommend the views expressed in this document. Document source: http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/business/committees/historic/health/mop-00/hemop1025.htm Information about document and author: Text Text audience General public: Audience size: 1000+ Text details Method of composition: Wordprocessed Year of composition: 2000 Word count: 367 General description: Committee Minutes. See http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/business/committees/index.htm Text medium Web (webpages, discussion boards, newsgroups, chat rooms): Text publication details Published: Publisher: Scottish Parliamentary Corporate Body Publication year: 2000 Place of publication: www.scottish.parliament.uk Text setting Government/politics: Text type Written record of speech (e.g. hansard, legal proceedings, minutes of meetings): Author Author details Author id: 908 Surname: Scottish Parliamentary Corporate Body