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Health and social care on the Isle of Man is the responsibility of the Department of Health and Social Care (Isle of Man). Healthcare is free for residents and visitors from the UK and there is a reciprocal health agreement with the UK. For several years it has required a supplementary vote to balance its budget at the end of each year [1]
Organisation[edit]
Sir Jonathan Michael conducted a review of arrangements for health and social care services on the island which was published in May 2019. He recommended that they should be delivered 'at arm's length' from the government and that arrangements for clinical support from the NHS in England should be improved.[2] The chief executive of the Department of Health and Social Care and his deputy resigned. [3]
Funding[edit]
In 2013 about £178.4 million was spent on healthcare. £138 million came from the Manx government and about £40 million from income National Insurance contributions, prescription charges and private patient fees. About £80 million was spent on Noble's hospital.[4] In March 2018 Sir Jonathan Michael was asked to conduct a review of the service because of concern that current funding levels are 'unsustainable'. The Council of Ministers estimated that funding would have to be increased by 23% - an additional £60 million by 2022/23.[5]
Primary Care[edit]
The 14 General practices have a list system. Patients have to register with a GP. Temporary residents from the UK can use the service without charge. The practices on the island have an average of 1900 patients per GP. A digital facility for patients to make GP appointments and view their own health information online was launched in September 2017.[6] The Manx Emergency Doctor Service is available when the practices are closed, from 6pm to 8am and at weekends and bank holidays.[7]
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Dentistry services are available on a similar basis to those in the UK, with charging on a banded basis and exemptions for children, students, pensioners, pregnant women and people in receipt of Income Support, Income Based Job Seekers Allowance or Employed Persons Allowance, war disablement pensioners and blind people.[citation needed]
Annual eye tests are provided free to Isle of Man residents. NHS vouchers are available towards the cost of spectacles.[citation needed]
Manx prescription charges have been set at £3.85 per item since September 2010, less than half the charge in England. People get free prescriptions who have chronic conditions, as well as people who are: under 16 years old, under 19 years old and in school full-time, pregnant, on public assistance, prisoners, on a pension and under 75 years old, or over 75 years old.[8]
In April 2018 there was an announcement that NHS dentists on the island were at full capacity and that it could take years for new patients to be registered.[9]
Secondary care[edit]
There are two hospitals on the island, the main one being Noble’s Hospital, with 314 beds, giving about 4 beds per 1000 residents, around the European average, but considerably higher than in the UK.[10] Tertiary services are provided by the English NHS. The much smaller Ramsey Cottage Hospital has 31 beds and is situated in the town of Ramsey, on the North of the island.
The Isle of Man Ambulance Service is based at Cronk Coar on the Noble's Hospital site. It has 9 Accident and Emergency Vehicles, 4 Patient Transport vehicles and rapid response vehicles.[11]
Under the Termination of Pregnancy Act 1995 abortions can only be carried out if a pregnancy is the result of rape or because of mental health concerns but proposals have been made to alter the law. There have been no prosecutions under the act and women from the island travel to the UK for abortions which they have to pay for.[12]
History[edit]
Before 1948 there was a Mental Hospital Board which was responsible for Ballamona Hospital under the Poor Relief Acts and three voluntary hospitals: Ramsey Cottage Hospital, Noble’s Hospital and the Jane Crookall Maternity Home, each of which had its own Management Committee, on the island. There was a Hospitals Contributory Scheme. White Hoe Hospital was run by the Corporation of Douglas. There were proposals, by the Corrin Trustees who had collected funds, to establish a hospital in Peel but they were halted by the outbreak of war. Domiciliary services were provided by District Nurses, employed by the twelve District Nursing Associations. There were also two Infant Welfare Health Visitors and seven Infant Welfare Clinics.
The Isle of Man Medical Society had begun preparing for the establishment of the NHS in 1946 and asking the Manx government to establish a process. The two existing government bodies mostly closely involved were the Local Government Board and the Health Insurance and Pensions Board - which became the Board of Social Services in 1947 - submitted a report in April 1947.[13]The free health service started on the island on 5 July 1948, just as in the United Kingdom, but without any legislation and a good deal of confusion. 5 July on the island is, coincidently, Tynwald day, a public holiday. It was clear that the Board would have to be collecting National Health Insurance contributions from that date to ensure reciprocity with the United Kingdom.
The Mental Hospital Board was renamed the Health Services Board under the Health Services Board Act which was passed on 15 June 1948 and took on responsibility for the Cronk Ruagh Sanatorium and White Hoe Isolation Hospital. The voluntary hospitals Management Committees continued, but were now overseen by and responsible to politicians - something they did not welcome. One-third of their members were now appointed by the Board, to be responsible to the Board, and their accounts and activities were subject to monthly scrutiny. They were assimilated in 1963.
The Isle of Man Health Services Act was not passed until 10 August 1948. It was agreed that the term 'people of the Isle of Man' could and should be interpreted as including anybody physically present on the Island at the time, so that visitors - mostly from the UK - would be covered. In return the English NHS agreed that Manx patients could be sent, as necessary, for free treatment in English hospitals, and for other treatment not available on the Island.
32 General practitioners, 40 chemists, 16 dentists and 10 opticians joined the service at its inception. There were 28 specialist hospital doctors: 9 full-time, 12 part-time, and 7 visiting from England. For the first nine months of operation to 31 March 1949 the costs came to £197,200. The estimate for the first full year to 31 March 1950, was £454,668. By 1954 the Board was under pressure to reduce its expenditure by 20%. The Board responded by insisting that this would require reductions in the service which would have to be determined by the Government. The National Health Service Act 1950, widened the Board's powers to introduce charges, and in November 1950 a charge of 6d. per prescription form was introduced. This caused all but six of the chemists to withdraw their services for a fortnight. In December 1950 the Board introduced a range of exemptions from charges. Charges for dental treatment were introduced in 1950 and, in 1952, charges for spectacles at 10/- a lens, and the whole cost of an approved frame.
There was considerable administrative support from the English NHS. The Manchester Prescription Pricing Bureau dealt with the invoicing of prescribed medicine.[14] A Prescribing Committee, was established of whose six members four were doctors and one a chemist. Charges for prescriptions were increased in April 1953 to 1/- per form.
In 1954 the Board took responsibility for the Welfare Food Scheme. Orange juice, cod liver oil, and vitamin tablets were distributed through the Infant Welfare Clinics, of which there were then ten. They were free to all children under five, and to expectant and nursing mothers in necessitous circumstances. In the year to March, 1956 25,884 bottles of orange juice, 4,776 bottles of cod liver oil, and 594 packets of vitamin tablets were distributed. It also ran the Cheap Milk Scheme. From 1951 this was subject to a means test. In 1955/6, this was a household income not exceeding £5 a week, with the addition of 6/- for each dependent member. There were 176 beneficiaries, including 6 nursing or expectant mothers. A Home Help Scheme was also established and by 1959 there were 25 Home Helps.
The School Dental Service provided free treatment for children of school age, and they were originally not eligible for free treatment from other dentists except in an emergency.
See also[edit]
References[edit]
- ^'Department of Health and Social Care Programme for Government Service Delivery Plan 2017/18'(PDF). Isle of Man Government. Retrieved 1 June 2018.
- ^'Isle of Man: NHS care 'should be run at arm's length' from government'. BBC. 9 May 2019. Retrieved 10 May 2019.
- ^'Top health civil servants resign'. Manx Radio. 3 May 2019. Retrieved 10 May 2019.
- ^'Manx health service funding 'not sustainable', says health minister'. BBC News. 8 July 2013. Retrieved 4 October 2017.
- ^''Fundamental' review of Isle of Man health service launched'. BBC. 23 March 2018. Retrieved 2 June 2018.
- ^'Sign on for digital patient access'. IOM Today. 14 September 2017. Retrieved 4 October 2017.
- ^'Healthcare on the Isle of Man'. LOcate IM. Retrieved 4 October 2017.
- ^'Isle of Man prescription charges could net £3.8m, says health minister'. BBC News. 21 September 2017. Retrieved 3 October 2017.
- ^'Isle of Man public health dentists at full capacity'. ITV. 12 April 2018. Retrieved 3 June 2018.
- ^'How does the UK compare internationally for health funding, staffing and hospital beds?'. Health Foundation. Retrieved 3 June 2018.
- ^'Ambulance and Paramedics'. Isle of Man Government. Retrieved 4 October 2017.
- ^'Isle of Man abortion bill: Nearly 3,000 responses submitted in consultation'. BBC News. 18 September 2017. Retrieved 4 October 2017.
- ^Gellion, Donald (2008). Birth of a Service. Isle of Man. Retrieved 31 May 2018.
- ^Gellion, Donald (2008). Birth of a Service. Isle of Man. Retrieved 31 May 2018.
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