{"id":384449,"date":"2026-01-22T16:07:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-22T16:07:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/384449\/"},"modified":"2026-01-22T16:07:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-22T16:07:09","slug":"the-rewards-and-challenges-of-providing-healthcare-in-alderney","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/384449\/","title":{"rendered":"The rewards and challenges of providing healthcare in Alderney"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Alderney&#8217;s longest-serving GP has warned of a &#8220;recruitment crisis&#8221; as the health sector struggles with staff recruitment and retention.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Staff at the Island Medical Centre, the only GP surgery on the island, have highlighted not only recruitment issues, but also the logistical challenges of being based on a small island.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">But, with the difficulties, come the benefits of working among the small island community, they say, adding it is an &#8220;extremely rewarding job&#8221; offering the opportunity to &#8220;meet some amazing patients&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Dr Jonathan Cooper, who built the medical centre and has been at the practice for 40 years, said he had come out of retirement because &#8220;it&#8217;s difficult to get doctors to come here&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Alderney&#8217;s longest-serving GP has warned of a &#8220;recruitment crisis&#8221; as the health sector struggles with staff recruitment and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":384450,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[102,2960,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-384449","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-healthcare","tag-health","tag-healthcare","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/384449","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=384449"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/384449\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/384450"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=384449"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=384449"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=384449"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}