{"id":387214,"date":"2026-04-08T00:16:23","date_gmt":"2026-04-08T00:16:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/387214\/"},"modified":"2026-04-08T00:16:23","modified_gmt":"2026-04-08T00:16:23","slug":"politicians-hoping-to-force-debate-on-guernsey-healthcare","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/387214\/","title":{"rendered":"Politicians hoping to force debate on Guernsey healthcare"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">St Pier said the annual report was the &#8220;only information&#8221; provided to the States in relation to the regulation of healthcare providers. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;It is important, in our view, that the States makes the time and takes the opportunity to consider it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">An appendix report is ordinarily not debated unless a motion to debate is successful, Blin said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He added: &#8220;Health is our largest public service and, as such, the quality of care, outcomes and regulation are public interest issues.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;It is interesting to note from the report that that the number of locally registered doctors has grown by about two-thirds in 10 years from 200 or so to closer to 350. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;That is one reflection of our community&#8217;s growing healthcare needs.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"St Pier said the annual report was the &#8220;only information&#8221; provided to the States in relation to the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":387215,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[103,397,396,61,60],"class_list":{"0":"post-387214","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-healthcare","8":"tag-health","9":"tag-health-care","10":"tag-healthcare","11":"tag-ie","12":"tag-ireland"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/387214","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=387214"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/387214\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/387215"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=387214"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=387214"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=387214"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}