HEALTH & SOCIAL
SERVICES IS REDESIGNING THE HEALTH AND SOCIAL CARE SYSTEM TO ACCOMMODATE AN AGEING POPULATION
By Senator Andrew Green, Health and Social Services Minister
In common with jurisdictions across the world, Jersey faces significant challenges in delivering high quality health and social care within affordable parameters. We face public health issues in terms of obesity, diabetes and dementia, alongside the growing costs of medicines and treatments and ever-increasing public expectations.
Jersey also has some unique challenges: for example, workforce pressures, limited services in the community, clinical viability, and cost pressures due to diseconomies of scale from being a small island economy. And I have not yet mentioned the ageing population.
One of the key ambitions in the Council of Ministers’ strategic plan 2015-2018 is the delivery of high quality health and social care as our society ages – and Health and Social Services will be receiving nearly £40m of additional investment by 2019. But for the books to balance, and to deliver safe, sustainable and affordable care services to an ageing population, we have to change the way services are
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provided, including avoiding unnecessary admissions and supporting speedier discharge from hospital for those who no longer need to be there. We also need to ensure there is closer integration of physical health and mental health services in order to meet individuals’ needs.
Of course it is to be welcomed that more Islanders are living longer and healthier lives – an increasing number of us are likely to be active into our 80s and 90s. The number of people aged over 65 is expected to rise from the 2015 figure of 16,700 to 28,000 by 2035. However, the longer we live the more likely we are to interact with our health service. It is suggested that a person over 65 typically uses
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