However, Julie Garbutt promised that she would not employ a ‘slash and burn’ approach which had damaged the National Health Service in the UK.
She said: ‘We have a growing elderly population and restrictions on resourcing and we have to look very hard at which services we want in Jersey.’
The department is currently having to toe the line as all States departments strive to find two per cent savings for 2011 and recent reports have identified management failings and poor procedures at the Hospital.
• See Thursday’s JEP for full story.
