AS GUERNSEY’S ageing demographic is starting to impact on care services it has been revealed that there has been a 6% drop in the number of care home beds over the last three years.
AROUND two weeks ago I was very unwell, ending up in the PEH. The following day the family were called as my condition had seriously deteriorated – not that I knew at the time but I was by then in ICU with a large number of tubes and wires attached to my body. Doctors and nurses working tirelessly to keep me alive.
INNOVATIVE ideas from health professionals have been recognised through bursaries from Insurance Corporation to bring their propositions to life.
CHAPLAINCY services at the Princess Elizabeth Hospital have seen significant improvements made over the past four years.
A DIFFERENT voice from the Civil Contingencies Authority but the same message delivered yesterday.
LOCAL charity Ernie’s Angels has donated Medi Teddys to the hospital to comfort children who are undergoing hospital treatment.
The charity Bowel Cancer Guernsey is celebrating its 20th anniversary this year and Amanda Eulenkamp has a very personal reason to help it mark two decades of achievements and advancements...
WHEN her teenage son lay ill in an intensive care bed with a post-Covid illness, it was the moment he suddenly asked for Weetabix that Mo Ismail realised he was going to pull through.
ALL islanders are being recommended to do regular lateral flow tests and wear masks in indoor spaces, as Guernsey’s Covid active cases rapidly rise to 233.
GUERNSEY is fortunate to have attracted many nationalities onto the nursing staff in the Princess Elizabeth Hospital. Having recently spent time in the PEH I had the good fortune to have a Belgian born specialist, a Hercule Poirot-type expert on internal organs. Nurses from far-flung countries as well as Europeans have found their way to our shores. So I saw at first hand the long hours that PEH nurses work, whether on day or night shifts. The pleasantness, kindness, humour of the nurses and non-medical staff towards their patients was unwavering. The burden of responsibility for care and nursing of the residents of the Bailiwick is carried on the shoulders of surgeons, specialists, doctors, special unit staff, nurses, trainees, ‘old Uncle Tom Cobley and all’.
A NEW diathermy unit will help improve treatment for bowel cancers in the Bailiwick.
LOCAL doctors are supportive of younger teenagers having the choice to be vaccinated, local BMA press officer Mat Dorrian has said.
A LACK of critical care beds at the hospital could lead to a potentially challenging winter for medical staff.
The whole of the Princess Elizabeth Hospital staff have been nominated for the Angel of the Year award, which is sponsored by Ravenscroft.
ROSIE LAWLOR, mother of three, has been nominated for the Ray and Scott-sponsored Parent of the Year award.
