Health look again at funding cuts

Saturday 5th September 2009, 2:58PM BST.

Health Minister Anne Pryke

INCREASED crematorium fees, charges for occupational therapy assessments and a restructuring of the Ambulance service are all part of a proposed alternative package of Health savings.

The Health Department has announced the alternative savings following the public outcry at its initial savings plans earlier in the year.

They included scrapping the patient transport service and the closure of Grands Vaux family centre. However, the department has warned that it will still need an extra £2m to run properly next year – on top of the £167.3m they have already been allocated in the Business Plan.

The plan will be debated in just over a fortnight, and ministers may have to take the unusual step of amending it themselves to provide the extra £2m for Health.

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Mogit

September 5, 2009 at 3:22 pm

God almighty, I can’t afford to live now and you want to charge me more for dying!!!
When the time comes leave me outside in the sun somewhere, i’m damn sure some States department will find a way of getting rid of me, before the smell gets too rank!!!

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Keith

September 5, 2009 at 5:51 pm

Give them the money they need – or take the chance that you won’t fall seriously ill and need their services. Believe me I was as ignorant as the next man until I was diagnosed with a critical illness, I now visit the hospital for essential care every week and see the effects of underfunding, nurses working overtime for free, consultants paying for patient transport to the UK themselves because the state will not pay.

These people are the bedrock of our society, I’d be dead but for their care, give them the funding they need. Stop spending on UK consultants to tell us what we already know, if cuts must be made make them elsewhere.

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DF

September 5, 2009 at 5:53 pm

Cut States Members Wages and Pensions and i am sure that will find an extra £2m for Health

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bella

September 5, 2009 at 7:32 pm

get rid of the deadwood that are supposed to be running this island would be a better idea.
health should come first.
how many polititions does it take to run this place?and more important why are they STILL wasting our money which ought to benifit us not spent on what they want.too many chiefs and not enough indians come to mind.

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Jeff

September 6, 2009 at 11:14 am

I find this piece very confusing. I have tried to present a plan for a community transport scheme that will not only save the States more than £500k pa. But will also give our community a structured, reliable transport serivce that currently does not exist.
I have been unable to even get them to read the presentation without dismiising it out of hand.
Its such a shame that the ministers seem to be unable to either understand a basic business plan themselves or instruct someone within their department, with that ability, to review the plan and report back to them!

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