Oct 11 - Ellul-Hammond to Question Care Service During October Parliament Session
At next week’s sitting of Parliament, Isobel Ellul-Hammond, Opposition Spokesman for Health, will be asking how the new GHA management structure will work, whether the Consultants’ Contract has been resolved and how the new GHA Complaints Process will work in tandem with the Ombudsman Service.
Consideration of banning smoking in outdoor ‘eating areas’ will be asked for as well as an update on manifesto commitments for separate sex hospital wards and a Stroke Unit. Mrs Ellul-Hammond will seek figures on those, while in the care of St Bernard’s Hospital, have been admitted to the ICU for dehydration and on how many in-patients pay for a private carer, independently or from one of the two private care providers, in order to attend to their basic needs of feeding and washing during their stay in the hospital.
Progress on details for the workforce of the new Mental Health facility, at the former RNH site, by composition and skill mix will be asked for as well as for the two new Alzheimer and Dementia facilities and the Waterport Day Centre. Also, in her capacity shadowing Social Services, Mrs Ellul-Hammond will ask the Minister for an update on the posts of Nursing Co-ordinator at Mount Alvernia, Disability Team Leader and the Residential Home Manager of Tangier Views. Further details on the conversion of the former John Mackintosh Wing into an Alzheimer & Dementia facility will also be sought.
The Government will be asked to confirm if it has purchased the ‘Sunrise Motel’ on Devil’s Tower Road and whether this will be used to house the Moroccan and other immigrant workers, who must vacate the Buena Vista Hostel.
