A JERSEY-born nurse and her family are outraged that she has been ‘driven away from the Island’ because Health and Social Services will not give her a job without experience.
Qualified nurse Aimée Ollivier (21) has been forced to endure 14-hour shifts and financial heartache on a low wage in a UK hospital.
She and her mother, Clare Cooper, were furious after reading a story in the JEP this week that nurses from the UK were leaving the Island because it was too expensive to live here.
Health Minister Jim Perchard said that they want to start ‘growing our own’ midwives, nurses and social workers.
But Ms Cooper wants the Minister to explain why her daughter was recently advised to work in the UK rather than wait for a job in Jersey as ‘one may never be available’.
• Picture: Aimée Ollivier. Picture by Richard Wainwright (00627909)
