IOM DHSC & MANX CARE

[Amadeus]

Don’t worry, all stinky cheese head can do is snipe. I’d be all for getting rid of all LAs if there was an alternative that doesn’t mean the people up the hill will use it to extend their kingdom. 

[Mr Helmut Fromage]

51 minutes ago, Jarndyce said:

Let’s see…on the one hand, Health of the Nation - on the other hand, bins…

Health of the Nation…bins, Health of the Nation…bins…

Nope.   I’m no cheerleader for DBC - but I can’t quite see the equivalence…

It’s the analogy of someone in “power”  doing less than nothing and blaming others 

[Fred the shred]

It is up to everyone to contact their MHK and plain speak let them know that every single one of them will be held responsible for this carnage when election time looms.   Tell them it is time they earned their keep and got rid of Cope and her side kicks as they are not fit for purpose.   If Cope and Co protest tell them sometimes unpalatable decisions have to be made.   Ta ta.   For Gods Sake Alf grow a pair and sort this pantomime out.

[Gladys]

If the main objective of Manx Care was to distance it from the MHKs, on that basis alone it has been an abject failure. 

[NoTailT]

8 hours ago, swoopy2110 said:

It's a scary time to live here. Delaying UK treating until next year will just create a bigger backlog to be sorted.

Reading the cuts. They’re all just kicking it in to next year. When the problem will be even bigger.

The entire list of cuts looks like a disaster waiting to happen. I actually don’t see the point in the Ramsey MIU. Have been there three times in last twelve months either for myself or with someone else and each time sent to Noble's because other than checking blood pressure and giving paracetamol, it seems they can’t do much.

It is certainly time to think that Manx Care is nothing more than a failure now.

Edited Thursday at 08:29 PM by NoTailT

[Vaaish]

I think it’s time for the government to publish unequivocal evidence illustrating the tangible improvements/enhancements/efficiencies that have resulted from the creation of Manx Care, as compared to the previous arrangement whereby both health and social care policy, together with service delivery, was vested in DHSC. 

[Jarndyce]

3 hours ago, Mr Helmut Fromage said:

It’s the analogy of someone in “power”  doing less than nothing and blaming others

What should he be doing, with regard to the Manx Care overspend?   Do DBC have “power” over DHSC these days?

[Anyone]

The problem is that your average politician is ill equipped to run even a burger van successfully ( or a coffee shop for example ) yet we put them in charge of huge and very complex organisations and expect them to run them with aplomb. Of course they without exception fail. It’s a bit like taking , for example , a former postman at the Outback and putting them in charge of Wetherspoons. 

[Non-Believer]

3 hours ago, NoTailT said:

Reading the cuts. They’re all just kicking it in to next year. When the problem will be even bigger.

It's what we do, with everything and have done for the last 20+ years. Can-kicking is an IoM speciality. Leave the burden for future administrations and generations to deal with, just as long as the currents get out scot-free and it is why we are where we are now.

[Apple]

In her interview T Cope refers to the Medical Director Ms Hudson currently working on new working practices for medical staff.  Maybe this is behind some of the unrest especially if new arrangements are being tied into negotiations regarding pay increases.

I would imagine that all the Manx Care staff  have had changes to the way they work and it was perhaps inevitable that medical staff would be subject to a similar process at some point. 

At the recent Manx Care Board meeting there was a business plan submission approved by the Board for a new Electronic Patient Health Care Record to be purchased and installed throughout the clinical service areas, and probably other sites, around the island. Presumably medical staff have had input into the selection process (there were a couple of options I believe). That will definitely not come cheap. 

[joebean]

Nostalgia for the Health Service is misplaced. The situation was no better. What the creation of Manx Care has done is give politicians, such as the spectacularly useless Lawrie Hooper, the ability to insist the problems are nothing to do with them and for the CM and Treasury Minister to showboat about budgetary restraint with the Health Service by underfunding it and leaving the issues created to Manx Care, without CoMIN members being held to account. Lawrie Hooper lacks both the balls and gumption to stand up for Manx Care and fight their (and ultimately, the public’s) corner by helping them work within a funding framework based on the actual cost of a service delivery, based on an assessment of actual need. It’s a cowardly cop-out to pretend that politicians have nothing to do with that as, ultimately, politics is involved in decisions about services that will not be provided, due to cost. 

Posters on this forum are falling for the cowardly spin our politicians are putting on this and blaming Manx Care as the service provider for delivery decisions arising from budgetary issues. There is always going to be an element of partnership between service provider and the service owner (Government) in determining what level of service is going to be delivered and afforded. Typically, the deficiency in the quality of our politics is leading to deficiencies in the relationship between Government and Manx Care. As usual, it’s only the public that suffer. Our politicians need to suffer at the next election. 

[asitis]

10 hours ago, Gladys said:

If the main objective of Manx Care was to distance it from the MHKs, on that basis alone it has been an abject failure. 

It should be distanced from Hooper by about a light year !

[KERED]

BREAKING NEWS COURTESY OF ROB CALLISTER:

 

 

The former health minister believes Manx Care is facing a 'funding crisis'

[lfc84]

7 minutes ago, KERED said:

BREAKING NEWS COURTESY OF ROB CALLISTER:

 

 

The former health minister believes Manx Care is facing a 'funding crisis'

Well it is true

[lfc84]

You can't have first class if you're budgeting for economy