A PENSIONER left in agony for a week because essential medical equipment failed to reach the island has finally had surgery on his fractured elbow.

HEALTH and Social Services will ask the States for several million pounds to investigate a major reconfiguration of Princess Elizabeth Hospital wards.

A LOCAL surgeon accused of breaching his duty of care says he did all he could to find an important nerve while carrying out a thyroid operation on Sharon Williams.

A WOMAN whose vocal cord was damaged following a throat operation claims surgeon Richard Vowles breached his duty of care.

PART of the profits of a Young Enterprise Group have been donated to help refurbish the Frossard Ward playroom.

ABOUT 50 people may have been exposed to quantities of brown asbestos powder spread across Ozanne Ward’s suspended ceiling.

EARLY estimates suggest reinstating the reciprocal health agreement with the UK could cost between £500,000 and £1m. a year.

TWO operations have been cancelled and the number of people with flu-like symptoms has more than doubled as Health and Social Services works to cope with an increase in sickness.

HUNDREDS of UK visitors have been treated in Guernsey since the end of the reciprocal health agreement with the UK, paying the island hundreds of thousands of pounds.

LOCAL nurses are demoralised because they don’t get access to the same benefits as non-local employees, the Guernsey representative of the Royal College of Nursing has stated.