{"id":233460,"date":"2025-07-03T01:33:11","date_gmt":"2025-07-03T01:33:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/233460\/"},"modified":"2025-07-03T01:33:11","modified_gmt":"2025-07-03T01:33:11","slug":"jersey-health-appointment-costs-cut-by-10","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/233460\/","title":{"rendered":"Jersey health appointment costs cut by \u00a310"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">People living in Jersey are <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.je\/Health\/Travelling\/Pages\/MovingReturning.aspx#anchor-7\" class=\"ssrcss-f6h2dj-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">required to pay for most healthcare, external<\/a>, including GP appointments, non-emergency hospital treatment, dentistry, pharmacists and ante-natal clinics.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Social Security Minister Lyndsay Feltham said she was pleased to introduce the new support.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">She said: &#8220;I&#8217;m grateful to general practice for working with us to deliver this important expansion.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Together, we are working to strengthen a high-quality, accessible and flexible primary care system for all islanders.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Dr Gordon Callander, from the island&#8217;s Primary Care Body, said practices were doing all they could to minimise the impact of costs for patients.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;It is great that the important work of practice nurses, healthcare assistants, paramedics and pharmacists is recognised by Employment, Social Security and Housing \u200bto allow the evolution of services offered to patients,&#8221; Dr Callander added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"People living in Jersey are required to pay for most healthcare, external, including GP appointments, non-emergency hospital treatment,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":233461,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4316],"tags":[105,4348,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-233460","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-healthcare","8":"tag-health","9":"tag-healthcare","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114786730297440944","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233460","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=233460"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233460\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/233461"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=233460"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=233460"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=233460"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}