Publication - Consultation paper

Patient Safety Commissioner role for Scotland: consultation

Published: 5 March 2021
Directorate: Healthcare Quality and Improvement Directorate
Topic: Health and social care, Programme for Government
ISBN: 9781800047518

This paper seeks views on what the Patient Safety Commissioner role should look like; who it should report to; and how the role should interact with existing legislation and policies, as well as with the various organisations involved in providing and improving health and care services in Scotland.

Supporting documents

Footnotes

1 First Do No Harm: The Report of the Independent Medicines and Medical Devices Safety Review

2 Patient Rights (Scotland) Act 2011

3 Who regulates health and social care? (Health and Safety Executive)

4 The organisational Duty of Candour provisions of the Health (Tobacco, Nicotine etc. and Care) (Scotland) Act 2016 and The Duty of Candour Procedure (Scotland) Regulations 2018

5 Learning from adverse events through reporting and review - A national framework for Scotland: December 2019 (healthcareimprovementscotland.org)

Contact

Email: ConsultationPSC@gov.scot

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