Tim Glover MHK said the issue was not whether the funding was needed but why budgets were being set below “known reality”, arguing agency staffing costs had become a structural part of the healthcare system, rather than a temporary pressure. <\/p>\n
Julie Edge, MHK, renewed calls for a “forensic audit” of Manx Care, and questioned whether the budget was at all realistic.<\/p>\n
Others defended the healthcare provider, pointing out that bosses had warned of the overspend at the start of the financial year. <\/p>\n
Lawrie Hooper MHK argued several costs had not been included in its allocated budget, and said members had effectively chosen to continue providing services without fully funding them. <\/p>\n
Hooper said the debate highlighted a disconnect between the level of healthcare services expected and the funding provided.<\/p>\n
Responding to the concerns, Christian acknowledged there should have been earlier discussions about whether some services should be delayed or reduced if funding was unavailable. <\/p>\n
She also said work was under way to strengthen financial controls and reduce reliance on “temporary staffing”.<\/p>\n
She said financial oversight had improved and that stronger controls, workforce planning and service transformation programmes were aimed at creating a more sustainable healthcare system.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tim Glover MHK said the issue was not whether the funding was needed but why budgets were being…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":645807,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[102,2960,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-645806","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-healthcare","tag-health","tag-healthcare","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/645806","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=645806"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/645806\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/645807"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=645806"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=645806"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=645806"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}