HEALTH and Social Services chief officer Mark Cooke is in talks about leaving his job, it is understood.

A DATA protection complaint from Health and Social Services against Deputy Mike Hadley has failed.

A NEW era for mental health services in Guernsey was heralded yesterday as construction got under way on a £24m. mental health and wellbeing centre.

PRIMARY CARE has offered money back from its Accident and Emergency contract to help with the appointment of a consultant emergency doctor, HSSD has confirmed.

OAK trees removed to make way for the new mental health facility development were the subject of a ‘full, independent survey’, the Health and Social Services Department has said.

THE former Health and Social Services minister has questioned why the new board has delayed a Health Care Review report from being debated.

CANCER rates in Guernsey dwarf those in Jersey and the south-west of England, latest figures have revealed.

HEALTH and Social Services could make a £2m. profit per year if it ran the accident and emergency service in-house under a revised model, one States member believes.

PROFITS of approaching £1m. a year are being made by the private company providing the island’s accident and emergency service, according to consultants employed by the States.

IF the hospital’s accident and emergency service was in any way failing then the company which provides the service and Health and Social Services would receive more complaints, the department’s minister has said.