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Plans to see Guernsey and Jersey working more closely together to provide Health & Social Care in Guernsey are coming to fruition.
A proposed 'Jersey Care Model' has been put together as Jersey is updating its health model, and it would help to see greater cooperation between the islands, Guernsey's Health & Social Care Committee have said.
The Jersey Health and Community Services Jersey Care Model - which you can read more about here - outlines a major reform of health services and bears strong similarities to Guernsey’s new health and care model, the Partnership of Purpose, which was approved by the States in 2017.
A spokesperson for HSC said it was pleasing to see their key aims were closely aligned.
"Like Guernsey, Jersey is seeking to move away from its institutional-based model into a more modern, community-based approach which puts people, their family and home at the centre.
"In its proposals it recommends working more closely with Guernsey on health matters, in particular specialist services and tertiary care – such as neurosurgery, organ transplants and complex cancer care which is not available on the islands. They are also seeking to repatriate some of this work to the island, coordinating with Guernsey to maximise the collective opportunity and benefits."
A Memorandum of Understanding was signed earlier this year between the States of Guernsey and Government of Jersey setting out the commitment from both parties to work closely together through the newly established Channel Islands’ Strategic Partnership Board for Health and Care and it is hoped that with such close alignment at a strategic level, considerable benefits will be created.
Pictured: Deputy Heidi Soulsby, HSC President, has fronted the Partnership of Purpose, which she says is similar to the new Jersey model.
Deputy Heidi Soulsby, President of Guernsey’s Committee for Health & Social Care, added: “We have already worked closely with our Jersey colleagues this term and believe that there is potential to do far more.
"The fact that both islands have now commenced ambitious transformation plans recognising the challenges of delivering sustainable health care – ageing populations, medical inflation and high expectations of islanders, should mean that we can make real and sustainable benefits for our respective communities.”
Pictured top: the PEH in Guernsey and Jersey's Hospital.
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