{"id":266492,"date":"2025-11-16T18:39:09","date_gmt":"2025-11-16T18:39:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/266492\/"},"modified":"2025-11-16T18:39:09","modified_gmt":"2025-11-16T18:39:09","slug":"cost-of-off-island-healthcare-treatment-almost-2m-higher-than-forecast-over-five-month-period","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/266492\/","title":{"rendered":"Cost of off-Island healthcare treatment almost \u00a32m higher than forecast over five-month period"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"aiir-c-news-extra__timestamp\">\n                    Sunday, 16 November 2025 11:38\n                <\/p>\n<p>                <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aiir-c-news-figure__image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/245738-1.JPG\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"aiir-c-news-article__abstract\">\n            Manx Care says work is underway to reduce patient travel, but a limited budget is delaying planning\n        <\/p>\n<p>Manx Care&#8217;s spending on off-Island hospital treatment in the current financial year was almost \u00a32 million higher than expected to the end of August.<\/p>\n<p>The healthcare provider had forecast a spend of \u00a38.85 million for the first five months of the 2025-26 period, but treatment at tertiary centres across has cost \u00a310.8 million.<\/p>\n<p>Manx Care says there is now improving awareness of high cost areas and activity levels, and that work is underway to improve efficiency and reduce patient travel.<\/p>\n<p>However, a limited budget has delayed activity planning, and some NHS Trusts have expressed concerns about adapting to new referral processes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sunday, 16 November 2025 11:38 Manx Care says work is underway to reduce patient travel, but a limited&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":266493,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[96,758,102,2960,755,756,757,128,50,759,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-266492","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-healthcare","tag-entertainment","tag-fun","tag-health","tag-healthcare","tag-isle-of-man","tag-manx","tag-manx-news","tag-music","tag-news","tag-presenters","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266492","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=266492"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266492\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/266493"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=266492"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=266492"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=266492"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}