Welcome to the Health and Social Services Department section of the States of Guernsey website.

The Health & Social Services Department is responsible to the States of Guernsey, to promote, protect and improve the health and social well-being of the people of Guernsey and Alderney.

The Department has a wide mandate delivering a diverse range of services including preventing, diagnosing and treating people with illnesses and disease and caring for them in its hospital services and supporting people in the community, including people with disabilities.

The Department also provides social services, including ensuring the welfare and protection of children and promoting, protecting and improving personal, environmental and public health for residents within the Bailiwick of Guernsey.

Guernsey’s Health and Social Services Department is the largest employer on the island with over 2,100 people employed including clinical and non-clinical staff with an annual budget of £84 million.

It is committed to promoting life-long learning and development opportunities for all staff and provides a range of academic, professional, vocational and skills based programmes designed to meet the needs of Health and Social Services staff locally at the Institute of Health and Social Care Studies. However the Institute is unable to train all clinical specialities up to the competencies required and owing to a more mobile workforce and impending retirements continually needs to recruit new staff.

A more effective recruitment policy has resulted in the commissioning of a HSSD recruitment website which provides detailed information about the department to all visitors to the site.

The Corporate Management Team is in charge of the day to day operations of Health and Social services, and is made up of the Chief Officer and six directors who are responsible for the services on the left.

The 109th Annual Medical Officer of Health Report for Year 2007/08 with the special theme of 'Learning from others' is now available from this link.