Is Health Minister Anne Pryke letting us down ?

[Chevalier Blanc]

The only way that this island can and should sort out the health dept is to bring Syvret back to take charge of it. Only then will the people in this island believe that all the wrongs will and would be put right!
They really need to get their head out of the sand and stop holding up the establishment party!
That might sound crazy but not as crazy as having the same totally incompetent people that are the establishment party still in power!

[rogueelement]

The only way that this island can and should sort out the health dept is to bring Syvret back to take charge of it. Only then will the people in this island believe that all the wrongs will and would be put right!
They really need to get their head out of the sand and stop holding up the establishment party!
That might sound crazy but not as crazy as having the same totally incompetent people that are the establishment party still in power!

please put this posting in the correct thread!
I suggest a second thread to go along with the Rico and Bloater thread , the single word .shite, should cover it .
CB repeat after me , "power to the people , power to the people"
John Lennon circa 1972 or was it Wolfie?

[Dundee]

In the JEP one reads that care for children has greatly improved (yet to see it myself), and then one has the front page news of the very sad death of a patient with special needs being very let down by the service not in one way but numerous, it would appear everything is going backwards not forwards:

http://www.thisisjersey.com/2010/12/31/patients-death-how-health-failed/

[tonytheprof]

One of the problems is that the grassroots staff have plenty of ideas about improving the health service, but so far their suggestions have fallen on deaf management ears. There is no incentive (in pay for example) for anyone who suggests good improvements, and for anyone who brings them about. The current pay and conditions preclude this.

[Chevalier Blanc]

It was wolfie, "Power to the People"

[boatyboy]

JEP

JERSEY’S system of charging people to see a GP could be encouraging doctors to make unnecessary patient appointments in order to boost their income, according to one of the industry’s leading professionals.

The ‘pay-per-visit’ method is also putting extra strain on the Accident and Emergency department of the General Hospital and worsening health inequalities as poorer people chose not to see a doctor because of the cost.
Dr Iona Heath, the president of the Royal College of General Practitioners who was in Jersey to address States officials on the future of primary health care, said that the current system was not ideal.

http://www.thisisjersey.com/news/2012/01/30/gp-charge-system-is-‘open-to-abuse’/

What are the real facts ?

What many local people may not realise that in the UK the doctor (GP) does not charge, the NHS pays, so different to Jersey. Secondly most GP’s in Jersey earn between £3 to 5 hundred thousand a year.

For some reason although J Cats. can get work in a trust company or other type of work,  GPs are not welcome to work in Jersey unless like dentists they are invited to join ( buy in ) to an established Jersey practice.

Anyone for monopoly ?

BB

[man in the street]

 yes expensive to visit the doctor,  here in  jersey, ok if you work somewhere, were they give you health care  in with your job or you earn enough to fund your own health care.
 i dont  earn enough, i  did  but cancelled  the hospitalization policy as i could no longer afford it( part of my cut backs )
 the last thing , i did hear about anne prike was , the 90 day notice  she was supporting  to get a chap to get rid of his parrots.