Health appoint new chief executive
Monday 15th March 2010, 2:57PM GMT.
Julie Garbutt’s appointment comes after a turbulent few months at Health
A NEW chief executive officer of Health has been appointed.
Julie Garbutt, who is currently the head of Norfolk National Health Service, will replace Richard Jouault at the helm of the Health Department in the coming months.
Mr Jouault was acting chief executive since Mike Pollard resigned last September and will return to his role as deputy chief officer once Mrs Garbutt takes up her post, which is expected to be in the summer.
Her appointment comes after a turbulent few months at the department after the 30-year reciprocal Health agreement with the UK came to an end and a damning report by specialist consultants Verita containing 29 recommendations was released.
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How much is this women being paid, surely a local person could have fitted the bill.
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Lets hope she can clean up the mess Stuart Syvret left behind after his atrocious running of Health for 8 years. Good luck to her!
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Mrs Garbutt said “This is a once in a lifetime opportunity” for a person who comes with a high pedigree …..she know’s without even living here she has tapped the honey pot..I’m not saying she is not suitable….just look at the set up and what does that say about the much vaunted succession planning….clearly Mr Joualt is not up to the job or he should have got it…….and now we have another treasurer and one spare…is it any wonder the public despair….in case anyone has forgotten ,In the private sector on planet reality,we hire one at a time,if they fall down on the job they are sacked and replaced not given golden handshakes and let out the side door or put on ice till the dust has settled.
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I agree with rico (Post 2) 100%.
The Health Service needs a new lease of life and it also needs encouragement and not slating all the time by the self imposed exciled Syvret who could not cope with the responsibilty.
I wish her well and if she can improve things in health it will benefit everybody and nobody can argue with that.
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Frankly I think the Jersey health service is too big and too diffuse to be made or undone by one person. Besides the managers there are the consultants who wield a very high degree of professional autonomy within their department.
Home Affairs and Education are similar. Both the police and prison service and the schools are not directly controlled by the ministers and they don’t mind letting them know it!
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Rico- please change the ruddy record. you’re like a one trick pony.
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So another NHS no-hoper to join the ranks with all the other no-hoper chief executives who come from various areas of the UK Government. They come from a totally broken system in the UK, which they have helped to create and then use their skills to break ours. All the local Chief Officers have been bullied out of their jobs in order to make way for these jokers and to turn Jersey into another county of England. When will they ever learn???? Ask yourselves a question – how much better off is Jersey since we have imported this lot over the last 7+ years?? Worse off I would say.
Despite all the assurances given that the States are training up local people for the top jobs, its all hot air. There will never be another locally trained Chief Officer heading up a States department and for those remaining watch your backs because the smiling viper will get you in the end !!!! I see we already have a new Treasurer of the States from the UK waiting for the demise of the existing one.
Why do we need these overpaid, stereotypical chief executives when all that is needed is a good, loyal and dedicated Minister to oversee existing senior managers who should be empowered and accountable to carry out the role for which they are already being paid and at a hell of a lot less than a Chief Executive. Maybe thats just too simple.
A new recruitment slogan to be issued out to those local people looking to get a job in the States “abandon all hope ye who enter here”
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Julie Garbutt should do well. Verita would never of been so bad had not Stuart Syvret done his job properly. On the radio yesterday they were all saying the same thing. He blames everybody else for things going wrong but himself, not me, not me, he is pathetic. Some Father of the House he is and at least she is independant and from the outside so the usual idiots cannot claim ‘she is part of the establishment’ yawn.
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Its good to see a woman at the helm after so many male chief executives.I sincerely hope that she will address the ongoing management and morale issues that exist within H&SS and restore it’s reputation and not let issues slide.
Also hopefully she will relook at the slippage on outstanding and costly projects such as New Directions and have a totally new look at what is needed.
Doubt it though as she will be bringing UK NHS ideas with her.
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Angry Old Bean #7
You started out your rant with some arguable points then lost it completely when you said we could do without chief officers and just leave ministers to run the departments. Are you mad? Ministers are politicians and are generally not qualified to run anything. Health spend is approx £140m a year. Whilst I accept you may not have the expertise to run a department of that size efficiently let’s assume that Ms Garbutt does have.
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Toastedteacakes #1
Ms Garbutt’s capacity to do the job has little to do with the pay and nothing to do with whether she is from Jersey. It has everything to do with whether she is up to it. One assumes the recruitment and interviewing process was transparent and the best person was employed. Good luck to her, she’ll need it.
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Comment 1 Toastedteacakes How much is this women being paid, surely a local person could have fitted the bill.
I wondered how long before a racist comment came out, first of all it’s only one person hence “woman” not “women” that alone tells us all we need to know about your ability to grasp the subject.
Jersey has the population of a small UK town, this is a specialist position requirting specialist skills. Whilst not impossible it is unlikely that such a person would be indigionous to Jersey in the same way that it would be unlikely to fill this type of post locally in the UK.
As for how much is she being paid, the rate for the job I suspect, what else would you expect?
I wish her the best in a difficult and challenging position, not helped by the lack of support of people like you who would employ some divot whose ability could best be measured with a micrometer.
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rico (2) Lets hope she can clean up the mess Stuart Syvret left behind after his atrocious running of Health for 8 years.
Let’s not get disproportionate Rico. Remove your blinkers and you will see that for all his failings Stuart Syvret was assisted in his mismanagement by highly paid civil servants. Read the report!
The problem at Health goes deeper than just one man. But yes, good luck to Julie Garbutt, she will need it.
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So here we go again – parachute in another over paid, Common Purpose civil servant who is gong to tell our doctors how to treat their patients – rather than leaving our health care to the doctors and nurses – if you want efficient health care; it starts at the bedside – so pay the nurse properly, and get rid of all the unnecessary pencil pushers – cut the over staffing; not the professionals delivering the actual services.
Ministers should be running the States departments, as they once did some years ago, by ensuring that chief officers carry out States Policies and no one else’s. Unfortunately we have unaccountable civil servants who are now creating policy, to suit their own narcissistic self absorption, behind closed doors and it is neither their job nor their responsibility to do such – It is the sole job and responsibility of the States Assembly to set policy.
Unfortunately, the ill equipped morons representing us in the States Assembly have, over the years, abrogated their responsibility for the task of setting public policy by having handing it off to someone else during the lunch break so that they can waste time and money debating petty issues like forcing bicyclists to buy crash helmets rather than allowing people to accept and take personal responsibility for their lives.
We need to cut spending and cut it now! If that means firing the over staffed, then we must do it!
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It is about time local people were trained up for as many top jobs as possible to save pushing up the population too much.
I would ask people to read the Verita report before making comments. If you are unable to do this don’t bother as you will probably end up getting the wrong end of the stick like quite a few have done on here.
Just in case people are unaware the politician in charge did not/does not know the day to day runnings of a department. This is down to the management. So all you upset by this have a go at those responsible not the scape goat as far as I am concerned.
However by doing this you would also have to blame the CoM as well IMHO. Not that we could have that! We can’t have the management and CoM being shown up can we? Better to blame the person who blew the whistle by the looks of things to me.
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It’s amazing how many senior civil servants have some sort of scottish connection.
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