A MEMBER of the Health & Social Care Committee has made a strong defence of the proposals to build staff accommodation on a green field within the grounds of the Princess Elizabeth Hospital.
LA SOCIETE Guernesiaise is calling on islanders to object to proposals to build multi-storey accommodation on a green field site at the hospital.
THE number of flu patients in hospital are as expected in Guernsey, despite an ongoing ‘flu epidemic’ in the UK.
When you have lived as many decades as I have, you can be forgiven if from time to time you wonder if the world has gone mad. I can scarcely believe what I am writing, but it is true, the UK government plans to introduce a new employment law that will give workers the right to request special arrangements for themselves from the very first day that they turn up for work, and before they even ask where the free coffee machine is and how long before they can take their first rest break. Millions of these selfless, dedicated workers will be enabled to demand personal deals that will let them work from their beach hut, share their job with their best friend or grace the office with their presence only for certain hours of the day. This would be unremarkable if Gwyneth Paltrow, the woke Queen of Goop, were Prime Minister, but she isn’t. No, this wacky stuff is being peddled by, of all people, a Tory government. Thank goodness nothing like it could possibly happen here. Just imagine, half the civil service working from home and States deputies casting their votes from their sun loungers in the Caribbean. Unthinkable in Guernsey, eh?
PLANS to build 66 homes some 500 metres away from the hospital for key health-care workers have been submitted to planners.
The Albiceleste overcame Croatia 3-0 on Tuesday to reach the World Cup final.
COVID cases appear to be on the rise, as visitors to the Princess Elizabeth Hospital are required to wear masks again and one school has changed its teaching methods to cope.
GUERNSEY should be able to attract the extra nursing staff it requires, as long as they can find somewhere to live.
CARS pulled to one side as the Guernsey Police vehicle sped along Queen’s Road, blue lights flashing and siren piercing the early evening air.
A MADEIRAN man, who nearly died after suffering a brain aneurysm, believed he was poorly served by Guernsey’s health services due to his status as a temporary worker and has come forward to make sure it does not happen to anyone else.
I HAVE recently had two stays in the PEH, seven nights in October and three nights not long ago. I have to say that the care and attention I received on both occasions was fantastic. Nothing was too much trouble, everyone was very friendly, and the care itself was of an amazingly high standard.
Former politician and ex-Aurigny staff member Ralph Burridge considers the past, present and future of Alderney’s transport links
TRAFFIC and Highway Services has apologised after roadworks at the Princess Elizabeth Hospital led to buses being unable to service it.
DISCOVERING that Deputy Heidi Soulsby finds herself in a minority on the senior States committee will come as no surprise to seasoned States watchers.
ISLANDERS were given the chance to learn about progress on phase one of the Princess Elizabeth Hospital modernisation programme and what is proposed for phase two at a drop-in at Beau Sejour on Saturday.
