Baby milk could be a victim of Health cuts
Saturday 25th July 2009, 2:59PM BST.
Health Minister Anne Pryke
STOPPING baby milk supplies to new mothers and reducing the temperature in the hospital by five degrees are two of the money-saving ideas put forward by the Health Department.
Since the 2010 Business Plan was published on Tuesday details of the savings that departments have nominated as they search for £4 million in cuts have been leaking out.
Although the Health Department has been given extra funding to implement the findings of the Williamson Report into children’s services and to cover the costs of the lost UK reciprocal health agreement, they have also had to find cuts in their budget.
Health need to find almost £1.4 million in savings from their £167 million budget for next year and have laid out the plans in the annex to their accounts.
Health Minister Anne Pryke issued a statement yesterday afternoon acknowledging the public concern over the proposed cuts in her budget and saying that they would be reviewed to see if better proposals could be found.
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I would prefer they stopped people from all over the world coming here to steal our health care.
I would also prefer they stopped increasing our population as locals are waiting 3 months for treatment and scans.
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Agree completely with 1. (overpopulated).
Many of the proposed cuts I do however agree with.
But more importantly we are wasting hundreds of thousands on people who have been suspended for many many days. This is just another example of how Jersey likes to take money from the poor (health cuts) and give money to the rich (doctors and police being suspended for a long time)
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Hmm, even in my short time here on\in (delete as appropriate to your views) the Rock, this story keeps getting re-kindled and is used as a stick to beat the populus.
I wonder how many operations are undertaken on public holidays (i.e. Christmas Day) when staff are able to claim overtime …
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Given the apparent desire to grow the population….could be an own goal.
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The withdrawal of baby milk is effectively the same as charging adult patients for the cost of their meals, or is the plan to install kitchens so the patients can cook their own meals form food brought in by relatives ?
Not all mothers can brest feed, and if you have just had a c-section, you may not feel like getting up and mixing up a bottle of feed.
Real savings could be made by charging at A & E which is constantly full of people seeking treatment for stuff that they should be seeing their doctor about, or alternatively, they have fallen over and cut themselves open.
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