Orthopaedic waiting list rises by 10% since opening of new unit
Guernsey’s orthopaedic waiting list has grown to nearly 900 patients – a 10% rise – even after a dedicated orthopaedic unit opened a year ago.
Guernsey’s orthopaedic waiting list has grown to nearly 900 patients – a 10% rise – even after a dedicated orthopaedic unit opened a year ago.
Hospital modernisation has become more likely to continue, after States members voted 20-19 yesterday to put the project into more of the options available to them during this week’s tax and spending debate.
I WAS concerned on reading your paper and seeing that our States is considering buying houses on the Leale’s Yard [development] for essential workers. What an inept consideration, but fairly typical of our States. After 50 years as an architect in Guernsey this would be a wrong decision for the following reasons:
TWO major milestones have been passed in Guernsey Electricity’s biggest cable infrastructure project since the 1980s.
THE States’ two largest capital projects are unlikely to start at the same time if they are carried out by the local construction industry.
PARKINSON’S UK’S football team has been in Guernsey, seeing how a local walking football team has been helping people with health conditions.
THERE were plenty of waggy tails as dogs and their owners went on the first Wag walk of 2023 on Sunday.
Deputy Peter Roffey shares his thoughts on Policy & Resources’ three proposed scenarios for tackling the island’s funding crisis.
OPTING for anything other than Policy & Resources’ chosen means of dealing with the States funding crisis would be financially unsustainable, the committee has said.
A LEADING critic of a controversial application to build dozens of flats for nurses on a green field in the grounds of the Princess Elizabeth Hospital has claimed the plan has stalled and is going nowhere.
THE report that the States of Guernsey has acquired three fields adjacent to the site of the KE VII Hospital will send a shiver of apprehension down the spines of anybody interested in maintaining the natural beauty and ecology of this island.
A REPRESENTATIVE of the Wessex Synod of the United Reformed Church has been visiting the island.
Attache for Froya Linda Denton reflects on her 10 days with the team at the Island Games
MONEY raised from a neighbourhood raffle will go towards the hospital’s chapel.
DEBBIE DUPORT has been nominated for the Bailiwick Community Hero award sponsored by the Fort Group.