DHSC to ask for additional £18 million

Wed, 07 Sep 2022

An £18.3m cash injection will be used to boost hospital capacity and slash long waiting lists on the Isle of Man.

Health Minister Lawrie Hooper will ask Tynwald to support the spending when it meets next month.

The money would be used to pay private firm Synaptik to provide private clinicians to work at Noble's Hospital.

The additional capacity will be used to reduce the three largest waiting lists with around 760 orthopaedic patients, 930 general surgery patients and 2,090 ophthalmology patients having their operations sooner, covering procedures such as hip replacements and cataract removal.