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1. Do you agree that the Patient Safety Commissioner role should first focus on medicines and medical devices, as set out in the Cumberlege Review?

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Yes this is vital. All recommendations should be implemented so that patients and future generations are protected. I was on Epilim and had my children in Scotland and none of the NHS staff I've been seen by have addressed the issues and patient safety shown to be inadequate in this report.

2. If the role were to expand in the future, which specific aspects of patient safety do you feel the Patient Safety Commissioner should focus on?

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Process
Communication to all parties of new evidence.
Engagement with all stakeholders and specialists internationally. Eg learning from other nations.
Data base of patients
Multi disciplinary medical support

3. Do you believe that the Patient Safety Commissioner should be independent of the Scottish Government?

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No
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The focus should be in patients so they have an independent voice.

4. Do you believe that the Patient Safety Commissioner should be independent of the NHS?

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The NHS failed many people so in order for this to change the person has to be out with this.

5. Who should the Patient Safety Commissioner be accountable to?

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The Health Secretary

6. How much do you know about existing policies and organisations already in place (listed in table 1 on page 11 of the consultation document) to support patients’ voices to be heard within the healthcare system?

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Very aware (I have heard of all of them)
Quite aware (I have heard of most of them)
Not very aware (I have heard of a few of them)
Not aware at all (I have not heard of any of them)

7. In your view, despite the existing ways patients can make their voices heard (listed in table 1 on page 11 of the consultation document), why do you think people still feel that this is not happening?

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Doctors are very busy and naturally worried about personal legal action.

8. In your view, what should the main functions of the Patient Safety Commissioner be?

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To set up a team of cross skills specialists who can feed in details that can explore further. It should not be the case that thousands of women had to campaign for years to be heard. They should be listened to instantly.
Secondly, the person or their team could be contactable directly by patients.
Thirdly, any patterns of concern over medications etc are explored by them.

9. What skills and expertise do you think the Patient Safety Commissioner needs to carry out their role?

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Medical knowledge
Legal knowledge
Awareness of wider medical research
Awareness of drug development processes and research.

10. What support do you think the Patient Safety Commissioner would need?

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See list above
Plus admin team

11. Do you think that the Patient Safety Commissioner role should be established in law?

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No
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So it is enshrined and cannot be overturned by different leaders.

12. What are your views on how creating a Patient Safety Commissioner might affect the protected characteristics of age, disability, sexual orientation, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, and sex?

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I'm not sure

13. The Fairer Scotland Duty places a legal responsibility on certain public bodies in Scotland to actively consider how they can reduce inequalities caused mainly by people’s financial situation. What are your views on how having a Patient Safety Commissioner might affect this inequality?

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It should be a free and open service so that all people regardless of age, sex or finance can access it.

15. What are your views on how having a Patient Safety Commissioner might affect respecting, protecting and fulfilling the rights of children and young people as set out in the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child?

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Dont know.

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