{"id":155706,"date":"2025-09-23T15:38:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-23T15:38:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/155706\/"},"modified":"2025-09-23T15:38:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-23T15:38:07","slug":"states-of-guernsey-chasing-hundreds-of-healthcare-debts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/155706\/","title":{"rendered":"States of Guernsey chasing hundreds of healthcare debts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Guernsey&#8217;s government is chasing hundreds of healthcare debts through the court system, a new Freedom of Information (FOI) request has revealed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Petty debts summons rose from 17 to 728 &#8211; an increase of more than 4,000% &#8211; between 2019 and 2024.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The majority of the increase happened since 2022, when a new government-wide debt management team had targeted a &#8220;large number of historic debts&#8221;, the States said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Darren Smith, finance business partner for the States, said there had been a &#8220;significant increase&#8221; in summons issued for unpaid health invoices, but it was a &#8220;last resort&#8221; only taken once people had received at least two reminders.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Guernsey&#8217;s government is chasing hundreds of healthcare debts through the court system, a new Freedom of Information (FOI)&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":155707,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[102,2960,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-155706","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-healthcare","8":"tag-health","9":"tag-healthcare","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155706","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=155706"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155706\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/155707"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=155706"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=155706"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=155706"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}