The Official Report is a written record of public meetings of the Parliament and committees.
The Official Report search offers lots of different ways to find the information you’re looking for. The search is used as a professional tool by researchers and third-party organisations. It is also used by members of the public who may have less parliamentary awareness. This means it needs to provide the ability to run complex searches, and the ability to browse reports or perform a simple keyword search.
The web version of the Official Report has three different views:
Depending on the kind of search you want to do, one of these views will be the best option. The default view is to show the report for each meeting of Parliament or a committee. For a simple keyword search, the results will be shown by item of business.
When you choose to search by a particular MSP, the results returned will show each spoken contribution in Parliament or a committee, ordered by date with the most recent contributions first. This will usually return a lot of results, but you can refine your search by keyword, date and/or by meeting (committee or Chamber business).
We’ve chosen to display the entirety of each MSP’s contribution in the search results. This is intended to reduce the number of times that users need to click into an actual report to get the information that they’re looking for, but in some cases it can lead to very short contributions (“Yes.”) or very long ones (Ministerial statements, for example.) We’ll keep this under review and get feedback from users on whether this approach best meets their needs.
There are two types of keyword search:
If you select an MSP’s name from the dropdown menu, and add a phrase in quotation marks to the keyword field, then the search will return only examples of when the MSP said those exact words. You can further refine this search by adding a date range or selecting a particular committee or Meeting of the Parliament.
It’s also possible to run basic Boolean searches. For example:
There are two ways of searching by date.
You can either use the Start date and End date options to run a search across a particular date range. For example, you may know that a particular subject was discussed at some point in the last few weeks and choose a date range to reflect that.
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All Official Reports of meetings in the Debating Chamber of the Scottish Parliament.
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Health, Social Care and Sport Committee
Meeting date: 12 December 2023
Ivan McKee
Thank you. Does anyone else want to comment on that?
Health, Social Care and Sport Committee
Meeting date: 12 December 2023
Ivan McKee
That is very helpful. You have talked about the opportunities, and about turning into positives some things that are often portrayed as negatives.
Do the witnesses who are joining us online鈥擩aki Lambert and Nicola Gordon鈥攚ant to comment?
Health, Social Care and Sport Committee
Meeting date: 12 December 2023
Ivan McKee
Nicola, do you want to comment?
Health, Social Care and Sport Committee
Meeting date: 12 December 2023
Ivan McKee
Thanks very much. You have opened a lot of doors in your comments and I am sure that other members of the committee will want to investigate them further.
Health, Social Care and Sport Committee
Meeting date: 5 December 2023
Ivan McKee
Are there any specific examples that you would like to highlight?
Health, Social Care and Sport Committee
Meeting date: 5 December 2023
Ivan McKee
The Government and NHS Education for Scotland have launched the national centre for remote and rural health and care. What is your understanding of how that the centre will operate and what its priorities will be? Will it be focused on the right kinds of things, given the wide range of issues that we have already talked about?
Health, Social Care and Sport Committee
Meeting date: 5 December 2023
Ivan McKee
Is there a sense that, now that the national centre has been put together, its structure and priorities do not necessarily reflect what you were expecting?
Health, Social Care and Sport Committee
Meeting date: 28 November 2023
Ivan McKee
Thank you. That is helpful. The point about people seeing things in a more positive light is well made. Our saying that remote and rural communities have been at the forefront in adopting the technology, which is then rolled out more widely, is helpful.
Does anyone else want to come in?
Health, Social Care and Sport Committee
Meeting date: 28 November 2023
Ivan McKee
That is great鈥攖hank you.
Dr Makin, do you want to come back in?
Health, Social Care and Sport Committee
Meeting date: 28 November 2023
Ivan McKee
I will explore that a wee bit further; it came up earlier in the session. Redesign of service delivery in remote and rural settings is, through necessity, perhaps more advanced than it might be elsewhere.
To what extent do you feel that remote and rural health boards are leading the way, through technology or service redesign, with processes that are then adopted elsewhere? Is that part of how things are developing, or not really?
Do you feel that, as remote and rural areas, you are at the back of the queue, or that you are, in certain areas, at the front because you are developing technologies and processes in advance of anywhere else?