£3m. on training money well spent – HSSD
Monday 25th February 2013, 8:30AM GMT.
Health and Social Services minister Deputy Mark Dorey.
HEALTH and Social Services spent almost £3m. last year on training its staff, it has emerged.
The department’s 2012 budget for the Institute of Health and Social Care Studies was £2.9m. – £500,000 more than it spent in 2011.
But the department said the institute was financially viable.
HSSD was heavily criticised after it announced it had overspent its budget by £2.5m. in 2012.
‘The institute is cost effective to run, it also provides learning opportunities for the independent health and social care sector, and in this way is able to generate income for the HSSD,’ said a department spokesman.
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Can you explain how these cost were broken down to this figure?.
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Well duh, of course medical staff need training! Medicine doesn’t stand still, or would we rather still have doctors prescribing leeches?!
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It is to be hoped that our doctors WOULD have the forethought to prescribe leeches, as they are used in most eminently respectable hospitals all over the world.
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As far as I’m concerned, any money spent on the Institute is money well spent. Especially when it comes to the on-island training of nurses, in the UK nurses have to go to Uni to do their courses and don’t get much time on the wards, here they produce some excellent nurses with the right balance of theory work and practical experience on the wards.
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