08/06/26 : Manx Care 2.0?

Manx Radio News: Health Minister says “Manx Care 2.0 is around the corner following a governance review.”

“Manx Care 2.0” is a very interesting choice of words. It indicates that Manx Care 1.0 is now an officially recognised failure, and clearly the Council of Ministers believes it can improve things - with it’s own version 2.0

But we’re missing a step aren’t we? Surely if we are again going to pretend  Government can fix it, we first need to clarify why version 1.0 failed - don’t we? Any other approach (after so many failures) is insanity - isn’t it? 

If you need a reminder of how tragic this pantomime is, please read the first paragraph of Sir Jonathan Michael's report...

(https://www.gov.im/media/1365879/independent-health-and-social-care-review-final-report.pdf)

He knew this was going to happen.

The most important point to re-clarify here is that more than half of the recommendations in Sir Jonathan Michael’s report have not been implemented. Specifically the most important ones, which would actually change how things are run! 

The funding model has not been fully implemented. The overarching legislative reform has not been completed (or even started in some cases). There has been virtually no progress on the “Unified Clinical Strategy”, and the true separation of services to become fully ‘medically led’ has not been implemented as intended. 

Who is responsibile for this failure of implementation if not IOMG / the Council of Ministers? And now the Council of Ministers is going to come up with it’s own solution - after not following through on the last set of commitments approved by Tynwald? 

Why is it like this? Because the system allows it to be this way. It is this way, because it can be. Only by changing the rules of the game will anything change. How much longer are we going to accept this twaddle? 

https://www.manxradio.com/news/isle-of-man-news/health-minister-manx-care-2-0-is-right-around-the-corner/