{"id":646321,"date":"2026-06-19T00:50:29","date_gmt":"2026-06-19T00:50:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/646321\/"},"modified":"2026-06-19T00:50:29","modified_gmt":"2026-06-19T00:50:29","slug":"interim-chief-executive-appointed-at-manx-care","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/646321\/","title":{"rendered":"Interim chief executive appointed at Manx Care"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/cx21gv5zllno\" class=\"ssrcss-1e0jzsh-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Pressure in early May saw the island&#8217;s main hospital trigger the highest alert<\/a> when bed occupancy was stretched to 98.9%, leading to the cancellation of some non-urgent surgeries and limits on new hospital admissions.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Medical Staff Committee (MSC), which is made up of 75 senior doctors and consultants, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/c0q3jl58zg7o\" class=\"ssrcss-1e0jzsh-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">previously called for an increase in bed spaces at Noble&#8217;s Hospital<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">That triggered the commissioning of a rapid review of capacity at the facility.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The committee, which has also previously called for more clinical representation on the Manx Care board, has welcomed the appointment of Stockport as interim CEO.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">However, it warned that structural change could not be &#8220;achieved by a single personnel change&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A previous vote of medical staff had shown 88% had no confidence in the the Manx Care board, it added.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">DHSC Minister Claire Christian said: &#8220;Strong professional clinical leadership is essential to effective decision-making, and Chris has demonstrated his understanding of quality and safe service delivery.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Pressure in early May saw the island&#8217;s main hospital trigger the highest alert when bed occupancy was stretched&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":646322,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[102,2960,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-646321","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\/646321","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=646321"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/646321\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/646322"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=646321"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=646321"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=646321"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}