TOUGH political decisions will have to be made if Health and Social Services is continually forced to find savings, its chief officer has warned.

ONE of the striking  things to emerge from the debate on Health and Social Services’ attempt to increase its budget was the number of States members who appear not to know the financial facts of life.

TURNING a property in St Martin’s into a disability adult respite centre would have provided a great service, says HSSD.

DIAGNOSTIC tests could cost patients up to half a million pounds a year if the Health and Social Services Department’s budget is not amended at today’s States meeting, the Guernsey branch of the British Medical Association has warned.

HEALTH and Social Services should have already been working towards making £2m. worth of savings instead of ‘sitting on its hands’, a Treasury and Resources member has said.

THERE was a whiff of humbug at the weekend as Health and Social Services’ budget once again came under scrutiny.

HEALTH minister Hunter Adam has insisted there was no divide between the department’s officers and its board over an amendment it has placed to the 2012 Budget, but admitted the motion was political.

SOMETHING about the Health and Social Services Department’s plea to be let off finding all the economies requested by Treasury and Resources because it has been such a good boy already really does not ring true.

HEALTH and Social Services has placed an amendment to the 2012 Budget, to prevent its spending being slashed by more than £2m. next year.

A COUPLE say they have been left homeless with one of them unemployed after Health and Social Services retracted a job offer.