Health and Care (Staffing) (Scotland) Act 2019
102.Under section 2(3) of the Health and Care (Staffing) (Scotland) Act 2019, every Health Board and Common Services Agency for the Scottish Health Service (commonly called National Services Scotland) is required to provide the Scottish Ministers with information on the steps which those organisations have taken to comply with their duties to have regard to:
	The guiding principles for health and care staff;
	the guiding principles for health and care staff when securing the provision of health care by contracting with another person; and
	the need for the person with whom they are contracting to secure the provision of health care to have appropriate staffing arrangements in place.
103.Paragraph 6 of schedule 2 amends section 2(3) of the 2019 Act to require that that information be provided to the Patient Safety Commissioner for Scotland at the same time it is provided to the Scottish Ministers.