£2.8m for St Saviour’s Hospital?
Saturday 27th August 2011, 2:58PM BST.
A bigger refurbishment of the hospital is now planned
A REFURBISHMENT project at St Saviour’s Hospital could be more than doubled in scope after ministers made a late move to change next year’s spending plans.
Treasury Minister Philip Ozouf has announced that he will propose an amendment to next year’s spending plans to spend a total of £2.8m on the works at Beech and Cedar wards at Clinique Pinel.
The move comes after a woman came forward in May to say that her 85-year-old father had been robbed of his dignity on Beech Ward – Anita Shepherd called for an urgent investigation into the care of mentally ill patients.
She took the difficult decision to speak out after growing increasingly concerned about standards of care.
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Double the next year ???
What kind of inflation are they on ?
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So Senator Ozouf has a bottomless pit of money!!!
No actually he has our money that he keeps on spending like its going out of fashion!!!
He should face up to facts that we are under enormous pressure with the amount of tax he has us paying now and one person complaining does not justify spending millions when the committee the previous year said it was fit for purpose.
He is a spendaholic and is using our money to do this with.
Each day is a step closer to borrowing money and eventual bankruptcy.
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No point in doing it up Oz, all your Nursing staff are leaving.
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We need to spend money on this place big time. Many of our parents/grandparents are in there and its money well spent.
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Mary (4) Many of our parents/grandparents are in there and its money well spent.
Sorry Mary you have rolled two unrelated points together, neither of which may be true:
1) only some, rather than many, of “our parents/grandparents are in there”; and even if many were “in there”;
2) a last minute 2.5 million spending proposal, made on the back of a single complaint, does not foreshadow money well spent.
Your parents/grandparents may be in St Saviours Hospital and you may want money spent on them, but that does not in itself make a case for tax increases, the inevitable consequence of the runaway budget we now have.
Mary I am sure there are many who love and care for parents/grandparents, I certainly did. However the cynic in me screams ‘£20 million windfall’ following the collapse new police HQ deal followed by a ‘how do we spend all that money?’
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The amount of social despair,depression and breking up of families as more and more people are becoming seriously destabilized we will need to enlarge asylum….people are boozing drugging and numbing out the hated reality of the haves and have nots….when you take away peoples |Totems….they go down like burning spitfires…….FACT
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