New service designed to reduce hospital admissions

The new service will launch on Monday 25 March

A new intermediate care service is to be rolled out by Manx Care in a bid to reduce hospital admissions.

Last month, people with minor injuries were asked not to attend Noble's Hospital's emergency department after a "sustained increase" in the number of patients needing to be admitted.

The new "community alternatives" would provide "short-term rehabilitation" to reduce admissions for acute illnesses and allow more timely discharges from hospital.

Manx Care said the intensive short-term care was designed to help people remain at home when they start to find things more difficult, recover after a fall, acute illness or operation, or return home quicker after a hospital stay.

Access to the services would be through wellbeing partnerships across the island and clinical navigators within the Emergency Service Joint Control Room, as well as GP surgeries, hospital wards and community services.

Launching on 25 March, the service will incorporate the reablement service and work in tandem with the Ramsey and District Cottage Hospital.

The measures include crisis response, bed-based intermediate care and community-based intermediate care.