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.
Following the Chief Minister’s speech to the US Council on Foreign Relations this week, the Opposition has welcomed his statement that the ‘2006 Constitution has given Gibraltar so much autonomy that we believe that this could be the maximum level of self-government short of independence and there is no political move to seek independence in Gibraltar" and that the Cordoba Agreement was "very positive’.
Addressing the United Nations Fourth Committee yesterday in New York Chief Minister Fabian Picardo touched upon the notable 50th anniversary of former Chief Minister Sir Joshua Hassan’s speech to the Committee of twenty four, on the same issue, decolonisation.
During his time in the US, Mr. PIcardo has met with the Council of Foreign Affairs in order to further spread Gibraltar’s message…
