Hatton said the hospice touched many families across the island.<\/p>\n
“There’s not many people that I have met in the short five months I’ve been in this role that don’t have some story to share with me about how Hospice [Isle of Man] supported them, or a loved one, or a friend, or a colleague through incredibly difficult times in their lives.”<\/p>\n
But as part of cost saving measures, the charity said it would stop “filling gaps in the wider healthcare system”.<\/p>\n
Hatton said making “difficult decisions now” were needed to “protect the long term future”.<\/p>\n
Hospice Isle of Man said it would continue working with the government and Manx Care and planned to launch a campaign in May calling for “a fairer funding model” and an increase in government support.<\/p>\n
In a statement the Department of Health and Social Care and Manx Care said it was committed to supporting the hospice to continue providing its services. <\/p>\n
It added that a number of services, including physiotherapy and occupational therapy would transition from the hospice into Manx Care.<\/p>\n
The healthcare provider was working with the hospice to make this a smooth transition for patients, it added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Hatton said the hospice touched many families across the island. “There’s not many people that I have met…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":350432,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[134,527,111,139,69],"class_list":["post-350431","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-healthcare","tag-health","tag-healthcare","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/350431","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=350431"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/350431\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/350432"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=350431"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=350431"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=350431"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}