Health and education need to split from the States to be more efficient, says business expert

Kevin Keen, who last year was employed as a consultant to find public sector efficiencies and is currently interim chief executive at Durrell, told the IoD lunch held at Grand Jersey on Tuesday that the Island’s government needed to focus on only what really needed to be done and ‘get others to do the rest’.

He said that bigger and more centralised departments were ‘not the right solution’ and that decentralising education and the Hospital would also cut costs such as human resources.

Referring to the recently incorporated Ports of Jersey, Andium Homes and Visit Jersey, he said that by breaking away from the public sector former States departments now seemed to be ‘getting on with the job’ and were ‘happy places to work’.

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