BBC Jersey political reporter<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n Jersey’s health minister is “finally understanding the issues facing women’s health”, the head of Jersey’s Health and Social Scrutiny Panel says. <\/p>\n Deputy Louise Doublet made the comments after a public hearing where Tom Binet faced questions from a scrutiny panel and was questioned about steps to tackle issues some women faced.<\/p>\n A government report last year found women in Jersey lived longer than men, but spent more of their life in poor health.<\/p>\n Doublet said she felt Binet was making some good progress, but she was concerned he suggested using the government’s strategic reserves for more health funding. Binet said he needed in “excess of \u00a3100m in five years to improve preventative care”.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Binet faced questions on a wide range of issues, including misogynistic attitudes in the health service, the decision to scrap the women’s health strategy, and gaps in gynaecological care.<\/p>\n At an occasionally heated meeting, Doublet said: “I think the minister is starting to take women’s health more seriously but there is a way to go.<\/p>\n “It’s good that the minister has accepted the findings of the public health report into women’s health.<\/p>\n “I will be watching and prompting the minister to develop his understanding of women’s health issues, and to develop his policies and legislation in this area and to continue to give this area the focus and support that it deserves.<\/p>\n “One of the themes in the hearing was that culture can be an issue, and culture change is something that the minister wants to improve, so we will be following up to ask the minister what he is doing to change that culture and that there is a gender sensitive approach to health care.”<\/p>\n<\/div>\n![\"BBC](\"https:\/\/ichef.bbci.co.uk\/news\/480\/cpsprodpb\/66b0\/live\/a22b6c40-25d2-11f0-aba2-1d6cad92c603.jpg.webp\")
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