About Jersey's health services
Jersey boasts a comprehensive range of health and social services of which islanders are justifiably proud. The island’s General Hospital is a modern facility offering a wide range of free healthcare for general and acute services. Health professionals within these services aspire to provide the highest standards of modern medicine and expertise.
The General Hospital has modern healthcare facilities including an Accident and Emergency Department and a Critical Care Unit. The hospital provides a wide range of services with patients requiring specialist treatment often being referred to the UK. In such cases this treatment is paid for by Health and Social Services. Due to changes made to the Reciprocal Health Agreement with the UK, from 1st April 2009, islanders travelling routinely to the UK are advised to obtain medical insurance.
The following are available on island but not administered by Health and Social Services:
- 21 General Practices
- 105 General Practitioners. These are private practitioners and therefore charge for their services
- 29 community pharmacies, providing a wide range of services and over the counter medicines
- some pharmacies open for extended hours in the evening and on Sunday ensuring that the service is available 7 days a week, 365 days of the year
- over 50 dentists in practice. Most types of treatment are charged for, payable to the dentists. There is free dental treatment for children up to the age of 11 years at the Dental Department at the General Hospital
- 9 independent optometrists and dispensing opticians
- 2 franchises of large UK high street optometrists and dispensing opticians
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