UK health deal could return early next year
Friday 1st October 2010, 3:00PM BST.
A health agreement with the UK could be back in place by early next year
THE reciprocal health agreement between Jersey and the UK could be back in place by early next year, it has been revealed.
Health officials are currently in talks with the UK’s Department of Health to agree a timeline for a new agreement. The UK scrapped the deal in April 2009 after it emerged that Jersey was profiting from the old agreement to the tune of £3.9m a year.
Richard Jouault, deputy chief officer of Health, revealed today that Jersey and UK officials were now working hard to get the agreement back on track.
‘We are continuing positive discussions with the overseas healthcare team at the UK Department of Health, who also dealt with the new Isle of Man reciprocal health agreement,’ he said.
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…and if the UK have got any sesnse they will make sure that the new premiums reflect the x number of years X £3.9m that Jersey has been defrauding the UK. Jersey has got some cheek quite frankly.
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About time yoo. But if our polititians had not been so greedy we would not have lost it in the first place..
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obviously uk see more jersey ppl as our hospital cant do half of what uk can do,prehaps instead of jersey sending ppl to the uk for simple operations, which causes there familys and the patients more stress, that they make the hospital bigger, and get better, more experienced surgeons?? u dont wait 4 hours in a uk a+e!!
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Hmm. I know that the UK reckoned that more Jersey people were treated in the UK than vice-versa, but I wonder if they got their sums right.
Seriously, are we to believe there were more people from Jersey who fell ill in the UK than people from the UK who fell ill in Jersey?
Even if the numbers are correct, I wonder if the relative ages of visitors to each place would not tend to distort the costs of treatment. (I am thinking of number of UK pensioners coming to Jersey compared with number of Jersey pensioners coming to UK.)
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I don’t want it back
The fact we are going cap in hand to the UK shows what a bunch of two-faced hypocrites we are.
In one breath we stick our two fingers up to the UK, claiming our independence and saying the UK is a terrible place to live
In the next breath we are on our knees saying ‘Please Mr Cameron, give us back the health agreement, please, pretty please’
We don’t contribute anything to the UK NHS, so why the heck should they support a pathetic little backstop like this?
Spain has more British tourists than Jersey, so that old chestnut about looking after holidaymakers means nothing. Yes, there are British people living here, but they came to Jersey for a reason & obviously healthcare wasn’t one of them – They made their choices, so tough luck.
The remainder of Jersey is predominately made up of Portuguese & Poles, so why exactly should the UK taxpayer support immigrants not living in the UK, who have never contributed in taxes?
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It was a pain when it changed but most islanders have now got their travel insurance. I wish the powers that be would put half this effort into sorting out the dismal state of Jersey’s health & hospital service within the island – that is what’s making unwell islanders’ lives a misery.
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Renewing the reciprocal health agreement between Jersey and the UK should be a first priority. Just as important, is renewing that time honoured bond with the UK, so wantonly destroyed by dismantling the Privy Council, by a former Labour government, whom had a Minister, whom had no idea that Jersey and Guernsey had different laws and governance.
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Are some of the above comments from one person, who is posting under several names, including my own? If so they can’t spell or make any sense.
Renewing the reciprocal health agreement is a priority for those that live in and believe in Jersey and want to encourage our UK visitors, despite several self destructive mindless comments above.
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#4 James, it also covered university students etc. Given that there’s no University in Jersey that’s going to be a fair number of people. Also, in 4 years a student is likely to visit a GP a number of times, very few people end up needing a GP on holiday, even when old.
#3 You can and you do wait 4 hrs! Friday or Saturday night possibly a lot longer, depends on the severity of your condition compared to that of the other people that show up. Take a conscious but ill person then an unconscious drunk, who’s to know if the drunk is JUST drunk or if it’s something more serious? Better to be safe than sorry. Drunks and junkies ruin what is a great service.
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