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WQ.103/2023
WRITTEN QUESTION TO THE MINISTER FOR INFRASTRUCTURE BY DEPUTY L.J. FARNHAM OF ST. MARY, ST. OUEN AND ST. PETER QUESTION SUBMITTED ON MONDAY 13th MARCH 2023
ANSWER TO BE TABLED ON MONDAY 20th MARCH 2023
Question
Further to the report (R.32/2023) entitled “Approach to delivering new Health Care Facilities” setting out proposals for a multi-site hospital programme to coordinate subordinate projects over a number of sites including, but not limited to; St Saviour, Overdale, Kensington Place/Gloucester Street and the former Les Quennevais School, will the Minister outline how inter-site transfers of a deteriorating patient would be managed?
Answer
Deteriorating patients will be managed in the same way that they are today.
The health department currently delivers services at St Saviours, Overdale and Gloucester Street in addition to a number of community outpatient centres, for example, La Chasse and Le Bas.
Currently, if transfer to another site is required for a patient being cared for in an inpatient facility, for example from Orchard House, Clinique Pinel, Rosewood House or Samares Ward , they are transferred by ambulance to the required site. This transfer is arranged directly with the ambulance service.
For patients who become unwell when attending an outpatient department, they are managed via a 999 call to the ambulance service and transferred to the Emergency Department if required following assessment by the Paramedic.
The Enid Quenault Health & Wellbeing Centre will provide outpatient services only.
In developing the new facilities, the clinical service clusters will focus on caring for our sickest patients in a single location. This will reduce the need for inter site transfers, but it is acknowledged that providing care across multiple sites may increase the number of these transfers.