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Deputy raises A&E concerns in defence statement

MANY doctors in Accident and Emergency do not believe they are capable of resuscitating a newborn baby, a deputy has alleged.

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MANY doctors in Accident and Emergency do not believe they are capable of resuscitating a newborn baby, a deputy has alleged.

Deputy Mike Hadley has raised a series of concerns about lives being at risk due to inadequacies at the hospital department, which is run by the Primary Care Company Ltd.

He also claimed A&E was recently left with only one doctor when in a crisis situation because the second on-call A&E doctor was also on call for the police and 'apparently considered' the police call more urgent.

'We have all of the ingredients here for a failure of health care in Guernsey,' he wrote in defence papers submitted to the Code of Conduct panel.

The panel looked into a Policy Council complaint accusing Deputy Hadley of breaching the code of conduct by circulating a highly critical report about A&E to all 47 States members.

The code of conduct panel found that the complaint was substantiated and has recommended that Deputy Hadley be formally reprimanded.

States members will debate the recommendation next week following the publication of an emergency Billet.

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