Patient centred

It means that nothing will change but someone will be paid a lot.

The swimming pools changing rooms have been a complete mess up. Who on earth chose the 1980’s prison colour scheme? What’s wrong with shades of blue?? It looks horrid.

Not to scare but to prepare; https://slate.com/technology/2020/03/coronavirus-covid19-italy-hospital-deaths-us-warning.html

I think this whole episode ( corona virus and weather) is showing just how fragile the connections are between here and the UK. People who require the ability to get on and off the island reliably will be reflecting on whether they should continue to live here or not.

for how many will this be the last straw? Unreliable flights means hard to do business

There’s no boat to of from Liverpool in winter. It’s middle of nowhere heysham

The 8.30pm flight. Apparently if I can’t get the delayed 6.45pm one then there are no flights from Liverpool until next friday

Easyjet Liverpool delayed 2 hrs and late flight cancelled today. No flights tomorrow.

And it’s winter so it’s not like the ferry can get you anywhere worthwhile.

Either way, having been there the other day I cannot understand why the small pools aren’t open with just the slides out of use as clearly nothing going on with the slides. Also who on earth chose the colour way of the changing rooms? Grey and red feels like a male prison or smelly gym. It’s horrendously oppressive. What was wrong with blues ????

Code for ‘we screwed up giving you wrong data and now you want more money to rectify your mistake which we haven’t budgeted for. We are now considering who to blame/ how to extricate selves without looking like total tits.’

doctors here can’t get section 12 approval as per the U.K. if you stay here and lose your section 12 approval, you can not recover it because you only work on the IOM with a different mental health act. Ie ‘section 12 approval’ does NOT have the same level of training/ scrutiny etc. This has been a bit of a shock to several doctors working here. Did you know that the doctors determining CESR were being paid to do this work using vouchers form the RCPsych bookshop (I kid you not). In addition, much of the work that has to be put forward for CESR is signed off by other doctors here. You might say that there was a conflict of interest if you want to keep a workforce here in signing off?? CESR is not as rigorous as obtaining a CCST most ( not all I accept) doctors who go for CESR couldn’t pass the RCPsych exam if they were trained in the U.K.

I think you are missing the point? I’m guessing you haven’t had any friends or family go through the mental health services and that you hail from the ‘nothing to see here’; ‘ get the next boat out in the morning’ brigade.

Yes but there is no supervision!!!!!!!! Unlike in the U.K.

Exactly but It’s not about not being able to access training here. It’s about getting appropriately trained people in the first place or appropriately supervising and not asking them to work outside their area of competence. You can’t get higher specialist training in any medical specialty on the Isle of Man.