内容摘要："If families can't be seen at the same practice, if people are punished then to join a waiting list because they have looked after their mouth, then where are they going to go? Because we know hospital waiting lists don't work," he said.

"If families can't be seen at the same practice, if people are punished then to join a waiting list because they have looked after their mouth, then where are they going to go? Because we know hospital waiting lists don't work," he said.

He lived alone in retirement and over the last decade his health had been deteriorating.Matthew thought long and hard about telling him the truth about his family history but, in the end, decided against it.

"I just felt my dad doesn't need this," he says. "He had lived 78 years in a type of ignorance, so it didn't feel right to share it with him."Matthew's father died last year without ever knowing he'd been celebrating his birthday a day early for the past eight decades.Since then, Matthew has driven to the West Country to meet his dad's genetic first cousin and her daughter for coffee.

They all got on well, he says, sharing old photos and "filling in missing bits of family history".But Matthew has decided not to contact the man his father must have been swapped with as a baby, or his children – in part because they have not taken DNA tests themselves.

"If you do a test by sending your saliva off, then there's an implicit understanding that you might find something that's a bit of a surprise," Matthew says.

"Whereas with people who haven't, I'm still not sure if it's the right thing to reach out to them - I just don't think it's right to drop that bombshell."The government said C5 Alliance would begin its initial two-year contract on 1 August and there would be an option to extend it for a further two years.

is set to take effect by midnight on 31 July.The States said the budget for the provision of the IT helpdesk for staff was about £750,000 per year.

This is the first agreement in the government's new multi-vendor model for IT services which the States said would improve accountability and the reliability of services for islanders.Gé Drossaert, States chief digital and information officer, said he was pleased they had been able to appoint an on-island firm and was confident C5 Alliance would deliver a "first-class service".