Health deal with UK back by next week
Wednesday 30th March 2011, 2:57PM BST.
Health Minister Anne Pryke
ISLANDERS will no longer have to pay for non-emergency health care when visiting the UK from next week, the Health Minister has said.
Speaking in the States yesterday, Deputy Anne Pryke said that the reciprocal health agreement, which was scrapped almost two years ago, would be reinstated by April 5.
If so, it would end the need for people going to the UK having to take out travel insurance to cover the cost of medical treatment.
It will also end a long period of anxiety for older Islanders or those with pre-existing health conditions who have found it difficult to get insurance.
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What is this going to cost the taxpayer Deputy Pryke?
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Any chance you can give us an accurate cost Anne?
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I would hope the States of Jersey can be honest with the UK authorities about the numbers this time so it is correctly paid for.
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Good news, at last we can go to UK without having to worry if we can get insured or not
Many older ones could not go away as insurance companies cost so much.
Well done to all involved in getting this vital service back.
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Shouldn’t have lost it in the first place – but good news all the same!
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Well Done Health Minister! Congratulations!
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Agreed no’s 1, 2 and 3. Is this going to cost the taxpayer millions or are we going to fiddle the figures we give the UK again?
Did anyone at look at the possibility of using a UK insurance company or healthcare company to provide the service for all established Jersey residents travelling to the UK instead of using the national health service? – It may have worked out cheaper.
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How long until this Government cottons on?
We sponge off the UK when we need them, and then dig in our flag of independence at other times, sticking our two fingers up to them.
I give it 18 months max
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Well done Deputy Anne Pryke.An excellent achievement, which will further bolster our long and yet independent relationship with the mainland.
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“Well Done Health Minister! Congratulations!”
Independent and free thinking as ever!
If you want to stand for election you will have to develop your own ideas and show some original thought.
If you live in St Mary as you claim and you are planning on having a go at Deputy in 2014 then you will almost
certainly face Daniel Wimberley.
He has his faults but he is an effective politician, on the other hand you do not seem to have met up with a voter in your life.
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Craig 1 and J cat 2 – who cares what it costs, the most vulnerable in Jersey are being penalised because of pre existing health conditions by insurance companies. There is much confusion and small print when taking out insurance, lets have guaranteed cover and sod the cost.
It’s people lives we’re talking about, let the bean counters make cuts elsewhere, health should be ring fenced.
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About time, too, Hope `reciprocal` really does mean reciprocal and I don`t have to continue paying more than 100 quid each time I visit your over-priced rip-off of an island around three times a year. Wouldn’t do it, but my kids live there – and, yeah, ok, I quite like it. Yep, Nos 7 and 8, we WILL be watching you!
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There are some strong opinions being voiced here, but I don’t think #8 Beaumont is a million miles off the mark.
Our relationship with the UK has become rather blurred. The reciprocal health agreement is more important to us than the UK, so it does appear we’ve gone cap in hand. However, if a UK taxpayer then comes to live in Jersey for a period of time, they’re treated like a second class citizen. Grossly expensive, damp infested bedsits is all they get offered. Personally, I think the reciprocal agreement would be fairer if housing qualifications for lettings were removed for UK citizens
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There you go folks ..avoid the waiting lists..hop on the boat …and fill yer boots
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Common sense prevails at last. Jersey is part of the UK however you dress it up. (and believe me some of you do like to dress it up). I lived in Jersey for a couple of years and visit quite frequently. The people of Jersey, (and by that I mean the real Jersey people, not the hoy polloy filthy rich and getting richer by the minute Jersey tax exiles) deserve to be cared for when they need it and where it is not available on the Island. Those of you who think opening the doors will have floods of people queuing to come to live there, are living in the past. What Jersey had to offer has gone. A Cheap fags, booze and drug free zone it is not. At best it is a place to come to retire for the milder climate.
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#1 Craig it won’t cost Jersey anything, it will cost the UK no doubt, but hey, if they have agreed to it! Mind you, wouldn’t be like the Tories to do anything other than bow to a finance centre now would it?
At least I can visit family without worrying that I haven’t booked at least two nights in ‘paid for accommodation’.
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No. 16. – there will be additional cost to the Jersey taxpayer. The amount is the cost of free treatement to UK visitors which would previously have been paid by the visitors or their insurers prior to the agreement being signed. I wonder how much this will cost health per annum and whether is will have to be met by cuts elsewhere?
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