Official Report · Committee
Acquired Brain Injury Services (PE1179)
PE1179, from Helen Moran, on behalf of the Brain Injury Awareness Campaign, calls on the Scottish Parliament to urge the Government to introduce a separate and distinct health and community care client category of acquired brain injury to ensure that people with such injuries are given the proper support and services that they require.
I would be reluctant to close the petition at the moment. We should keep it open, because comments have been made about the proposal to develop the clinical network into a managed care network. I would like to hear what the Association of Directors of Social Work has to say about that, because there is concern about the care of people with acquired brain injury.
Do members agree to continue the petition on those grounds? Once we have received the response that has been requested, we can consider the petition again and make a conclusive comment.
The Scottish Government says that it believes that having a separate ABI care category is contrary to its work on long-term conditions and the central aim of treating people as people and not defining them by their condition. That needs some explanation if there are concerns about the level of care that is available for ABI patients.
We will take those points on board.
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