29/08/2014 BBC Channel Islands News

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Social Security contributions in Jersey urgently need to rise

as pressure grows on the fund that helps pay for GP visits.

Senator Francis Le Gresley, the islands'

Social Security Minister says the Health Insurance Fund, which

subsidises the cost of prescriptions and doctors appointments,

As we're getting older, we're getting more prescriptions

And the cost of dispensing them is becoming painful.

As well as prescriptions, the Health Insurance Fund pays

towards our GP visits ` as just over ?20 per consultation.

At the moment, the fund looks healthy,

with assets of ?80 million, but it's not set to last as costs rise

The fund is currently paid for out of social security contributions

The minister in charge says it's likely workers and businesses

Report shows that by 2022, we will only have reserves of 12 months

expenditure and we need to take action before that to increase

contributions so that position does not arise.

And that increase might pay for health care, but are rising

contributions an easy pill to swallow? The fund looks set to run

dry within the next decade. And it's likely changes will have to be made

People will know more about having to pay descriptions. I think

long`term, yes, short`term, it is not great. The fund looks set to run

dry within the next decade. It looks like changes will have to be made by

2017. A post mortem will determine

the cause of a 37`year`old man#s Police were called to a Hauteville

address in St Peter Port yesterday where It's thought

the body had been for some weeks. Smoking

in outdoor eating areas could soon A public consultation has just come

to an end asking people what they think should be done to help shape

a tobacco strategy Eating and drinking outside

are summer pleasures. But for non`smokers, they can also

present a few hazards as they try At this hotel, there's a beer garden

and the staff are exposed to smoke when they serve food

and drink to customers outside. They're both waitresses here

and they have different views on whether smoking should be banned

in outdoor eating areas. If people want to have a cigarette

with a pint of beer, I think let it carry on. It is not so nice when

somebody is smoking around you. It is not nice. It is not good for

health and just not nice. That is the way it is here. I think it is

sometimes now the case that people who do not smoke and who are out

with children for the day feel that it is difficult for them to sit

outside and enjoy a meal because of smoke drift. We want to find a way

of working that will resolve that. Music fans will be flocking to

Trinity for this year's Jersey Live It's the festival's 11th year

and international, chart`topping stars such as Ellie Goulding and

Ben Howard are topping the bill. But what room does that leave

for local artists? She is the only local singer playing

the main stage and even rehearsing to an empty field, Frankie Davies

knows the importance of this festival for Jersey artist. It is

great for local acts to perform something like this. Every few

Jersey artists are performing and this year's festival, in contrast at

whole stage is devoted to local talent at previous years. With

weekend tickets costing nearly ?100, organisers need big names to get

customers through the gates. We are going to concentrate in 2015 in

having a local talent stage but this year, one of the stages was dropped.

We have put the best of our local artists on the main stage this year.

Meanwhile, this could be the last time Frankie graces her home stage

as she is off to Nashville to try and crack the hugely lucrative

country music scene. I got invited to play at a festival there where

they do showcases, conferences, shows, it is a completely different

kind of festival to this. With her star on the rise across the pond,

the challenge for stars of the future is to convince festival

bosses to give them their big break on the big stage back home. Good

luck to Frankie. If you are going there this weekend, have a good

weekend. Thank you for watching. I will see one London `` Monday. Good

evening, with showery rain overnight, that for the their first

thing. But Richard clear with sunny spells later. At the festival, it

should mostly clear and brighten up into such evening with sunny spells

through Sunday as well. Denied, we are starting to see the showers that

the UK has seen arriving into the small hours, becoming increasingly

cloudy and entered the second part of the night, we will see a band of

rain associated with the weather front moving southwards. Here comes

that weather front first thing tomorrow morning. Cloudy entries

leave for a time but it will clear and by the afternoon, we will see

some sunshine breaking through. Into Sunday, it should generally be a dry

and fine day, quite bright, one day sees it clouding over again as the

weather front pushes in. Into the middle of next week, it will be

prior, brighter and much warmer. Here is a summary. Good night.