Our health in our hands conference 27th June 2024 at Town Hall St Helier Jersey

Our team of speakers:-

Dame Clare Gerada - A vision for Jersey’s future healthcare
Dame Clare Gerada has had a distinguished career as President of the Royal College of General Practitioners. She was on The Times Health
Commission which reported in February this year on the state of the NHS. We are lucky enough to have her as a non-executive member of the Jersey
Advisory Health Board. As well as being a dynamic speaker she has also written several books, “Beyond the White Coast: Doctors their Minds and
Mental Health” is an important text for all who have never considered that doctors might get ill too. Its sequel “Handbook of Physician Mental Health” is due out next month, and we have been told that there is already another book in the making. Dame Clare will be at the Edinburgh Fringe from 2-17th August with Phil Hammond, doctor and comedian, in “50 Minutes to save the NHS”.

Dr Nigel Minihane GP - The importance of primary care with a special focus on IT
Dr Minihane, who is part of the Castle Quay Medical Practice, has been practising in Jersey for over 35 years and is proud to trace his Jersey heritage to the Viking invasions of Normandy. He was head of the Primary Care Body (PCB) and is still one of its directors. The PCB is dedicated to ensuring the highest quality primary care in the Island. Dr Minihane is passionate about the importance of digital technology in medicine and is a supporter of patients’ involvement in their own healthcare. He is a supporter of assisted dying for terminally ill patients and has been instrumental in many of the recent discussions on the subject.

Rosemarie Finley - Living better, living longer. A look at Blue Zones
Rosemarie Finley started her career in nursing and has held senior executive positions in NHS trusts, the charitable sector and in healthcare publishing. She is the CEO of Family Nursing and Home Care, our main community health service, which provides care across all sections of the Island’s community, from infancy to end of life care. She will talk on the significance of Blue Zones, with their possible application in Jersey. Family Nursing and Home Care has been selected as Jersey Post’s charity of 2024.

Andy Weir - The importance of Mental healthcare
Andy Weir is head of Mental Health and Adult Social Care and has experience in several NHS trusts, including as head of healthcare at Brixton Prison and as the executive director of forensic services for the West London Mental Health NHS Trust. His responsibilities will also now include the new but long-delayed Orchard Ward for mental health patients at Clinique Pinel, St Saviour’s. Orchard Ward includes 16 private ensuite rooms, an intensive care ward and a seclusion room, as well as flexible space for communal facilities which can be used according to need.

Deputy Tom Binet. - The future of Jersey’s healthcare.
Deputy Binet is the Minister for Health and Social Services. As Minister for Infrastructure in the previous government he was responsible for guiding through the project for an acute hospital at Overdale. In this government he is also in charge of forming a strategy for healthcare, together with his assistant ministers Rose Binet, Andy Howell and Barbara Ward. He has overseen the opening of the successful Enid Quenault facility at Les Quennevais and the move of the much-loved Samares Ward rehabilitation facility from Overdale to St Ewolds. His most recent success is the opening of orchard Ward, the new mental healthcare facility at St Saviours.

Friends of Our New Hospital is a non-profit group started by the late Sir Nigel Broomfield. Our objective is to exchange information and to advance suggestions regarding the development of the Island’s Health facilities. We act as an independent source of information, commentary and analysis of the Island’s Healthcare Facilities.

email:- mary.venturini@ournewhospital.org.je