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A team of experts has recommended that Health must undergo not one transformational turnaround, but two.
The ‘Double Turnaround’ is the key recommendation of a group of consultants, who were employed to oversee the work of a team of advisers, who were reviewing the work of outside specialists monitoring external mentors.
It is hoped that by changing direction on the same axis twice, progress in healthcare in Jersey will be expedited at pace.
When it was pointed out that if you turnaround twice, you actually end up facing exactly the same direction you were in in the first place, one of the experts said, after a long pause: “After analysing a number of scenarios, the Double-Turnaround was considered more preferably to the Quadruple Right-Angled Pathway, which was a close second.
“But rest assured, every option satisfied the ‘4 Rs’ which form the foundations of all modern healthcare management systems - Review, Ruminate, Reconsider and Remunerate.”
He added: “With the Double Turnaround, you move assertively in one direction, and equally assertively in the other direction.
"The fact you end up in a familiar place, which is already tried and tested, is clearly a bonus, which ironically is what we also receive for coming up with the solution.”
The architects of the new model are part of a recently employed Double-Turnaround Team, which reports to the Health Change Unit, which in turn feeds into the Switch Service, the About-Face Task Force and the Independent Three-Sixty Board.
Feedback is provided by a Patient User Panel, so called because it requires a great deal of fortitude to navigate the teams of experts.
Pictured: The Double-Turnaround Team reports to the Health Change Unit, which in turn feeds into the Switch Service, the About-Face Task Force and the Independent Three-Sixty Board.
The teams of external advisers require so much room that some senior management at Health have been forced to move out of their offices.
Meanwhile, the Government has come up with a novel way of saving money in order to fund the experts - by not paying any of its suppliers.
Treasury spokeswoman Conneght Ariba, who has Irish/Mexican heritage, said that the new policy was being rolled out and proving to be a great success.
“We’ve saved millions of pounds by successfully disrupting unnecessary cash flow,” she said. “Occasionally it leads us to the Petty Debts Court but that is a small price to pay, as the name clearly implies.”
