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WOMEN in the early stages of breast cancer will be prescribed the controversial drug Herceptin free of charge in Jersey after Health Minister Stuart Syvret sanctioned spending about £20,000 per patient.

THE Health Minister’s ‘implacable opposition’ to a new private hospital in St Helier contradicts the Council of Ministers’s professed support of competition and choice, according to an Island business leader.

HEALTH’S decision to declare mobile phone masts safe was based on ‘reliable and robust’ scientific research and not some nonsense from the internet, Senator Stuart Syvret said yesterday.

HEALTH and Social Services have been given up to £15 million in capital funding to set up an integrated computer link between the department and GPs.

A GOODS and services tax could be introduced at a rate of 4.5% or more instead of the 3% agreed last year by the States.

A DEBATE over the future of the green waste composting site at La Collette was put back by the States yesterday.

THE Health Department may change their mind about all French products having to have English labels.

STATES Members will decide where the new composting plant will be and what technology it will use – but food waste will not be included in the plant.

THE Health Minister has called for healthy foods to be exempted from a goods and services tax to help stem the Island’s growing obesity epidemic.

A MIXED reaction has followed Wednesday’s decision to add the 3% goods and services tax to basic household expenditure.