“Adult patients from households with income above \u00a3210,400 would not be eligible for funded travel or accommodation.<\/p>\n
“This threshold aligns with the income limit used in Student Finance,” he said.<\/p>\n
The proposals were revealed last month<\/a> in the Health and Care Jersey (HCJ) Advisory Board papers, external<\/a>.<\/p>\n In them, the department said: “Healthcare costs are rising and HCJ must ensure that finite public funding is used fairly and directed to the Islanders who need care.<\/p>\n “Two draft policies and a law drafting instruction have been developed to help ensure resources are used responsibly.”<\/p>\n Just over 2,500 Jersey residents were referred to UK hospitals for treatment in 2025.<\/p>\n Health officials said the new policy “re-introduces the pre-2017 policy of eligibility testing based on household income”.<\/p>\n They also said they expected charges would apply to about 30% of households.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"“Adult patients from households with income above \u00a3210,400 would not be eligible for funded travel or accommodation. “This…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":479217,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[102,2960,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-479216","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\/479216","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=479216"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/479216\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/479217"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=479216"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=479216"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=479216"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}