28 February 2025
Please see below a statement from the Minister for Health and Social Services, Deputy Tom Binet, in
response to the publication of the Hospital Review Panel’s report.
Minister for Health and Social Services, Deputy Binet, said: ''Today, the Hospital Review Panel
released their 117-page review. Along with the New Healthcare Facilities Programme, Health and
Care Jersey and Treasury teams and Minister, I will study it carefully over the coming days and
respond to the findings and recommendations as soon as possible. Having read Deputy Renouf's
Forward and the Executive Summary, it is clear that the report is likely to cause a good deal of
unnecessary concern.
“For the avoidance of doubt, there is nothing in it to suggest that progress towards the delivery of
New Healthcare Facilities should be slowed and I am confident that the team will be able to address
all the key findings and recommendations and assuage any public misgivings. Even the Chair of the
Panel himself says that they are not saying the new healthcare facilities will fail to meet the needs of
Islanders or that they are definitely unaffordable.
“Everyone knows the new Acute Hospital at Overdale and other healthcare facilities are desperately
needed, and having worked with the highly competent delivery team for almost three years, I'm
satisfied that sufficient information has been generated in this specific, Jersey context to justify the
expenditure, and that the Outline Business Case will be refined to a Full Business Case in the same,
appropriate way."
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