{"id":628155,"date":"2026-06-08T21:20:11","date_gmt":"2026-06-08T21:20:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/628155\/"},"modified":"2026-06-08T21:20:11","modified_gmt":"2026-06-08T21:20:11","slug":"new-call-for-closer-health-partnership-with-jersey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/628155\/","title":{"rendered":"New call for closer health partnership with Jersey"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The islands came together in 2024 under the Channel Island Alliance for Health and Social Care with the goal of improving healthcare by boosting &#8220;collaboration and partnership&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">In the written response last week, the HSC said the two islands had &#8220;shared challenges and geographical location&#8221;, something with Deputy Rylatt agrees with.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I think being an island of 64,000 people we suffer the the issue of being the size of a small town trying to provide the healthcare service of a small country,&#8221; he told BBC Radio Guernsey.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;So we should be pursuing any opportunities to work with neighbouring islands if it can deliver better outcomes for patients and better value for taxpayers.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The islands came together in 2024 under the Channel Island Alliance for Health and Social Care with the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":628156,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[102,2960,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-628155","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\/628155","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=628155"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/628155\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/628156"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=628155"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=628155"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=628155"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}