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The Director of mental health and learning disabilities said the new mental health wellbeing service will take the pressure of community services so they can deal with people in crisis.
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It's possible some dementia patients could be sent to mainland hospitals during the refurb of Shackleton Ward at St Mary's as it closes for nine weeks.
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£23m in the red, an FOI request reveals the Isle of Wight NHS trust spent more than £1.1m on management consultants whilst services were cut.
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40 nurses have been hired from the Philippines to help reduce the amount Isle of Wight NHS Trust's agency costs.
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Following the warning notice from the CQC and after being placed in financial special measures, NHS Trust bosses have been invited to speak to the Isle of Wight Council’s policy and scrutiny committee for adult social care and health.
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The new quiet and calming space is already a success with dementia patients, offering them somewhere to spend quality time with family and staff, in a much more therapeutic space.
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Isle of Wight NHS CEO says they take warning notice issued by CQC very seriously, but welcome recognition of where improvements have been made.
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The Isle of Wight NHS Trust has been forced into working with the NHS Improvement Financial Special Measures team to ensure clinical services become financially sustainable.
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The health watchdog, the Care Quality Commission, says their findings were unacceptable and they've warned the Isle of Wight NHS Trust that they want immediate improvements within the emergency department to ensure people receive the high-quality care they deserve.
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The Isle of Wight NHS Trust CEO, Maggie Oldham, said staff who were not vaccinated could be removed from frontline duties and that other trusts had discussed withholding sick pay if a staff member chose not to have the vaccine, and then caught the flu.
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The Isle of Wight Labour Party Chair says "Islanders need to listen to the campaigners of ‘IoW Save Our NHS’, and make their voices heard, before their NHS is stripped away".
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Agency staff are being blamed for the 73-year-old man being moved to the wrong care home without any of his medication, including his insulin, or his clothes, without the knowledge of his family.
