Hospital owed £141k by overseas patients
HEALTH and Social Services has been left £141,000 out of pocket by overseas patients being treated here but then failing to pay their bills.
HEALTH and Social Services has been left £141,000 out of pocket by overseas patients being treated here but then failing to pay their bills.
It is a figure that significantly outstrips the equivalent for Jersey of just £45,600.
The department's financial management is currently the subject of a review by the States chief executive, Mike Brown, which was ordered on the back of last year's predicted overspend.
'The board of HSSD will be considering ways to change the collection of payment from overseas patients as part of the department's ongoing improvement of financial management processes,' a department spokesman said.
The figure for overseas debt is higher than the Jersey equivalent partly because Jersey has a reciprocal health agreement with the UK, he added.