HEALTHS financial reserves have depleted to such an extraordinarily low level that the department would be declared bankrupt if it were a UK council, according to an adviser and senior manager.
The department has already used 3.1 million of its reserves to deal with additional pressures between August and September this year.
And according to its own predictions, by the end of the year Health will have 1.78 million left for emergencies.
Carolyn Downs, a former chief executive of Brent Council in London who now sits on the Health Advisory Board as a non-executive director, told the board this month that, I would have to issue a bankruptcy notice if we (Brent Council) were running like this.
She stressed that Jerseys Health Department was …
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