Minister for Health re Health Transformation - Future Hospital Review Panel - Letter - 12 September 2017

Published on: 12 September 2017

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Scrutiny Office

Senator Andrew Green

Minister for Health and Social Services Peter Crill House

Gloucester Street

St. Helier

JE1 3QS

12th September 2017 Our Ref: 511/2.2 Dear Minister,

Chairmen's Committee Future Hospital Review Panel

As per my letter to the Chief Minister you will be aware that a Review Panel has been established to scrutinise the Future Hospital Project.

During a previous review of the Project (S.R.4/2017), the Corporate Services Scrutiny Panel noted the reference to the suitability of the existing hospital site for use as a health campus. The Panel made the following finding within its report:

In choosing the existing site, one of the advantages put forward by the Minister for Health and Social Services and was the option to develop a health campus. No plans have been produced to support this proposal and the costings have not been provisioned for within the budget.

The Ministerial Response stated:

The Health and Social Services and Infrastructure Departments are working together to develop a Health Estate Strategy, which will set out the proposed uses for the site in due course. The merits of a health campus and the scale of the health transformation mean it is likely that the site will need to remain zoned for health for the foreseeable future. In this context, it would not be possible or appropriate to include costs for the health campus within the capital proposals for the Future Hospital.

The Review Panel would be grateful to receive an update on this recommendation and in particular:

When the Health Estate Strategy will be completed
With regards to the ongoing health transformation, the type of services that might be expected to be located within the "health campus" in the future

The Panel looks forward to receiving the requested information before its next meeting on 20th September.

Yours sincerely

Deputy S.M. Brée

Chairman

Future Hospital Review Panel