Five doctors from UK as States takes over A&E
FIVE doctors from the UK will move to Guernsey as part of changes to how Accident and Emergency is run.
While the costs of relocation packages could not be disclosed, the Committee for Health & Social Care said the move to take the service in-house from the Primary Care Company Ltd was not a financially-based enterprise and would not cost any more.
A total of eight associate specialists, who have extensive emergency medicine training and sit under consultants, have been recruited, including three who were working full-time in A&E for PCCL and have transferred.
From September, they will be working alongside one consultant.
But director of hospital services, Jan Coleman, said the committee planned to take on another three consultants over the long-term, so that one would always be on shift.
'This has been a substantial project and we have taken our time so that, come September, there is no detriment to the service and the transition is smooth.
'The public will not see a difference, the service will remain as they have been experiencing,' she said.
'There will also be no change to the charges, but we will then start monitoring the service.'
