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Mark G

The reason they are short of Nurses is due to the lack of training given to local residents who wish to train as Nurses.

At present the training is only avl to an handful of people in the hospital and the majority of these are non local – unqualified people.

Instead of spending the money on training local residents they prefer to spend it on importing Nurses from the UK and abroad and also employing bank staff.

While i am not against importing skills or help i disagree with the locals been pushed to one side while un-qualified people pass them over all the time.

There are a lot of staff in the health service more than willing to be trained to nurse level.

And also when you hear storys like Aimees below.

“in septmeber finished university with my degree in nursing (adult) and was told although jersey born i could not work in jersey for up to 12 months as a staff nurse due to lack of experiance. Therefore am working in the UK. I am already drug, IV assessed and can take bloods. Unfortuantly Jersey would not offer me a job as a nurse which i am now wondering why as they are so desperate for qualified nurses?”

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P Lee

Health time bomb. Remember all those retired bank staff who could have bought houses, had private pensions and health insurance. They had to return to the UK

But low skilled often non english speaking workers, no pension, no health insurance have had accommodation built for them so they can import relatives to have all those lovely expensive treatments denied to tax payers.

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sharon le brocq

so this has just come to light when new politians come to power. does mr shenton jnr not have some explaining to do, he kept this all very quiet whilst spending time running down home affairs et al…..

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Clare Cooper

My daughter (Jersey born) qualified as a Staff Nurse in September with a Bsc degree in Adult Nursing and Clinical Studies. In July of last year she applied to the States of Jersey to enquire whether they had any vacancies for nursing staff as she desperately wanted to return home to Jersey to work once she had qualifed as a Staff Nurse. Unfortunately, because she did not have two years experience she was not considered a suitable candidate to apply for any nursing vacancies! In fact, the letter she received encouraged her to take a job in the UK! The whole system is a joke and it also took three months for her to receive an official reply to her application turning her down! Fortunately, a job was waiting for her in the UK as after working in The Royal Bournemouth Hospital on many of her placements gaining valuable work experience, they were keen to recruit her once she had finished her studies. As much as she wanted to return home to Jersey she has had no choice but to remain in the UK. Sadly, for her and myself as a single parent it has caused financial hardship to us as a family as instead of being able to return home to live she has had to set up home in the UK, paying rent on a flat, travel expenses, etc which could all have been avoided had she been able to return home to the Island she loves and live at home, where she belongs. I am proud to say that my daughter is an excellent nurse and has received nothing but positive feedback from her current employer. I for one am ashamed of the Health Service and how my daughter and other newly qualified nurses have been treated. The pay may be poor in the UK and the hours long but the NHS has been nothing but supportive of my daughter during her studies and since she qualified, which is more than I can say for the States of Jersey.

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