{"id":317926,"date":"2025-12-15T22:15:26","date_gmt":"2025-12-15T22:15:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/317926\/"},"modified":"2025-12-15T22:15:26","modified_gmt":"2025-12-15T22:15:26","slug":"plans-to-charge-some-jersey-ae-patients-put-on-hold","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/317926\/","title":{"rendered":"Plans to charge some Jersey A&#038;E patients put on hold"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The panel said the amendment aimed to guarantee fees would only be introduced once assurances and safeguards were adequately developed, published and approved by the assembly.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It added while an in principle decision was reasonable at this stage, the current lack of &#8220;scoping and analysis work&#8221; meant it would be inadvisable for members to not debate or influence the introduction of fees.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Panel chairperson deputy Louise Doublet said: &#8220;The panel did have concerns about how patients might be impacted, about the health of people using the services, but also the staff.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;How do they make those decisions on who can access care in A&amp;E and who can&#8217;t?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Binet said he was happy to accept a move to give the assembly the chance to make checks before the proposals were put in place.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He added: &#8220;We did make it clear we wouldn&#8217;t be introducing any changes until we&#8217;re absolutely certain that it wouldn&#8217;t put anybody&#8217;s health at risk.&#8221; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The panel said the amendment aimed to guarantee fees would only be introduced once assurances and safeguards were&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":317927,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[102,2960,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-317926","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\/317926","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=317926"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317926\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/317927"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=317926"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=317926"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=317926"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}