Welcome
I'm Heidi Soulsby and have been proud and privileged to have been a People's Deputy since 2012.
Drive
I have worked hard to get things done and have attended every States meeting since I was elected in 2012.
Passion
I care about Guernsey and its people and am dedicated to making lives better.
Leadership
I have been the longest serving political head of health and social care and proud to have led the largest and most complex part of the States of Guernsey that touches everybody's lives.
Focus
Since 2016 I have been focused on the transformation of health and care and to improve the running of government more generally.
Welcome!
Hi there and thanks for visiting my website. I’m Heidi Soulsby and am a People's Deputy. I was first elected to the States of Deliberation in May 2012 and during my first term I served as Chair of the Public Accounts Committee, Deputy Minister of the Health and Services Department and Member of the Scrutiny Committee, Constitutional Investigation Committee and Commerce and Employment Department.
In May 2016 I was elected as President of the Committee for Health and Social Care, under the new machinery of government.
In the 2020 General Election, the first under the Island Wide Voting system, I came 2nd. I was elected the first female Deputy Chief Minister and held that post until November 2022 until I resigned. I am currently Vice Chair of the Commonwealth Parliamentary Association Guernsey Branch Executive Committee and a Governor of the Board of The Ladies’ College.
About me
A bit of background as to whom I am
COVID-19
Various things about Guernsey's response to the global pandemic
Gallery
A selection of photos from my time as President of the Committee for Health & Social Care
My blog
I have built up this website since 2012 and it now contains articles on a whole range of matters of public interest. Most of the posts are taken from speeches I have made in the States of Deliberation, although not all. I have not missed a single day of a States meeting since I was elected.
I made the following statement at the press briefing on 5th June. We are now a week into Phase 4, we’ve had no new positive cases. It’s therefore understandable that some of you may be asking why we just don’t move to phase 5 now. In responding to that I…
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I made the following speech during the debate on the Energy strategy at the June States Meeting. The States was meeting remotely at this time. Sir, I thought I would begin by picking up on comments made by Deputy Lester Queripel just now and Deputy De Lisle in the previous…
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This is the statement I made at the press briefing on 29th May, setting out details of Phase 4. Determining what Phase 4 meant was quite difficult. Considerations over how we dealt with household bubbles, which businesses could open fully or with conditions, and at the same time trying to…
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I made the following statement at the press briefing on 22nd May. Last week I advised you all that, because of the amazing work of the whole community we could move fully to Phase 3 together with piloting the opening of a restricted class of businesses ahead of the introduction…
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I made the following statement at the press briefing on 14th May. Things were going well and we could announce that we would be able to move to Phase 3. As Dr Brink has advised, thanks to the amazing efforts by the whole community, we are in a far better…
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I made the following statement at the press briefing on 4th May. Firstly I would like to thank in behalf of HSC all those who have helped to put together our Framework for Exiting Lockdown that we are publishing today. There are 4 strategic aims of this framework, namely Mitigating…
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I made the following statement at the press briefing on 1st May. I said on Tuesday that we would be publishing our Exit Strategy next week. HSC met yesterday to agree the overarching framework that maps out what the future journey will look like. The intention is that this will…
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I made the following statement at the press briefing on 24th April. So tomorrow, we enter Phase 2 and the start of our exit strategy. Someone told me the other day, and apologies to Nikki, that they thought it could be described as Back from the Brink. Further to comments…
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I made the following statement at the press briefing on 22nd April. As Nikki made clear on Monday, we are currently in a good place, the curve has been squashed and that means we are ready to begin our exit strategy. Our approach to that exit strategy is 3 fold…
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Amidst the public health emergency, life still goes on and it was turn to make a general update statement to the States’ Assembly on 22nd April. This is what I said. Sir, Before making this statement I thought I’d look back at what I said in my last one back…
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