Manx Care Has Failed

[0bserver]

11 minutes ago, 2112 said:

Todays Crisis -

As reported on the NPM, Manx Care, Who Cares? has closed the Minor Injuries Unit at Ramsey Cottage ‘Hospital’ to redeploy the staff to Nobles. Hooperman has been invisible so far. 

Great news. It's better to have one fully staffed ED centrally accesible to all residents than half and half. 

The Ramsey Unit was a nonsense. 

[Lightening McQueen]

10 minutes ago, 0bserver said:

Great news. It's better to have one fully staffed ED centrally accesible to all residents than half and half. 

The Ramsey Unit was a nonsense. 

Given the area covered by RDCH it deserves greater investment to cater for this half of the island so we’re not reliant on one facility, especially given the recent pandemics the could potentially result in the scaling down and accessibility to Nobles.

Edited August 7, 2022 by Lightening McQueen

[snowman]

13 minutes ago, 0bserver said:

Great news. It's better to have one fully staffed ED centrally accesible to all residents than half and half. 

The Ramsey Unit was a nonsense. 

Great news that they've got fuck all staff. You're smart

[snowman]

3 minutes ago, Lightening McQueen said:

Given the area covered by RDCH it deserves greater investment to cater for this half of the island so we’re not reliant on one facility, especially given the recent pandemics the could potentially result in the scaling down and accessibility to Nobles.

It's a facility for all of the island 

[Lightening McQueen]

31 minutes ago, snowman said:

It's a facility for all of the island 

With very little (and at the moment) no fallback.

[2112]

This island can’t staff its main hospital and it wants to grow its population. I dread to think how the island is going to cope, especially if there if there is another pandemic or serious health crisis. 

[manxman34]

On 8/1/2022 at 9:10 AM, wrighty said:

With covid, our clinic has been phoning people the day before to check that they’re coming and don’t have covid symptoms. We still have no-shows.

Any of them died while waiting?

[Roger Mexico]

A quick look at the actual story, shows that the Ramsey closure was planned (the story was issued early this morning) and only for today.  It may possibly extend into tomorrow.  As will the tendency of some people to get apocalyptic about the smallest things.

[0bserver]

5 hours ago, snowman said:

It's a facility for all of the island 

No it's not.

[finlo]

11 minutes ago, 0bserver said:

No it's not.

Oh yes it is.

[Roger Mexico]

8 hours ago, Lightening McQueen said:

Given the area covered by RDCH it deserves greater investment to cater for this half of the island so we’re not reliant on one facility, especially given the recent pandemics the could potentially result in the scaling down and accessibility to Nobles.

While RDCH may cover half the Island geographically, it covers only about a fifth of the population (ie Ramsey, the seven northernmost Parishes plus a bit).  Everyone else is nearer to Nobles.  And even those in the North may prefer to go there if they think it is something major enough that  Nobles will have to treat.

As for providing back-up, the problem (as here) is that there aren't enough resources to provide the basic service, never mind backup.

Edited August 7, 2022 by Roger Mexico
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[WTF]

1 hour ago, Roger Mexico said:

 

As for providing back-up, the problem (as here) is that there aren't enough resources to provide the basic service, never mind backup.

basic service here IS back up

[0bserver]

10 hours ago, snowman said:

Great news that they've got fuck all staff. You're smart

Great news that they're not trying to run two units with fuck all staff and are instead trying to just run one with slightly less than fuck all staff. Keep up.

[0bserver]

3 hours ago, Roger Mexico said:

While RDCH may cover half the Island geographically, it covers only about a fifth of the population (ie Ramsey, the seven northernmost Parishes plus a bit).  Everyone else is nearer to Nobles.  And even those in the North may prefer to go there if they think it is something major enough that  Nobles will have to treat.

As for providing back-up, the problem (as here) is that there aren't enough resources to provide the basic service, never mind backup.

This is spot on. 

 

Ramsey Cottage Hospital should be stripped down and anything  useful transferred to Nobles. Build an extension at Nobles and sell off the Cottage site. 

[John Wright]

9 hours ago, 0bserver said:

This is spot on. 

 

Ramsey Cottage Hospital should be stripped down and anything  useful transferred to Nobles. Build an extension at Nobles and sell off the Cottage site. 

Have you ever attended RCH? I hadn’t, until recently. I was really impressed by the ranger of treatments and facilities on offer.

The range of facilities and treatments, as a community health centre, is wide. 

How’s it going to be cost effective to have capital spend and the extra running costs of things, like additional patient transport?

Its not back up, and that’s not what we are being encouraged to use it for. The biggest problem with Nobles A&E ( and lots of other departments, including Ramsey ) is staff shortage. Combining Nobles and Ramsey won’t change that.

However, that’s compounded, for A&E, by public misuse of A&E for things they should be seeing their GP, pharmacist or even self treating.