Category: Health & Beauty

The Department of Social Care (DSC) Social Services Division is marking the start of construction of the new northern EMI (Elderly Mentally Infirm) residential facility on 26th August 2010 when Hon Martyn Quayle MHK , Minister for Social Care, will initiate building work on the site.  This facility will be for elderly mentally infirm people [...]

The Department of Health has today begun the roll-out of a public awareness campaign about the new Manx Emergency Care Record (MECR). The MECR is a summarised electronic record of key medical information for use in emergency situations.  It will cover all Manx residents living in the Isle of Man who are registered with an [...]

The Department of Health wishes to remind members of the public that from Wednesday, 1st September 2010 changes will come into effect in relation to NHS prescriptions and dental treatment charges, following the approval of Tynwald in its July sitting this year. Prescription charges will increase from £3.25 to £3.85 per item dispensed. Dental treatment [...]

The Department of Social Care has received a news release from Mr Houghton MHK dated yesterday concerning changes in benefits for some individuals in residential care.  With effect from 1st August, the Department has introduced changes such that Attendance Allowance and Disability Living Allowance are payable as part of the fee which contributes towards the [...]

The Department of Health is encouraging Island residents who are planning visits to Western Europe and parents of children, to check that they have had two doses of the Measles, Mumps and Rubella (MMR) vaccine. There are reports of increasing numbers of measles cases in Europe, including France, Greece and Bulgaria to name just a [...]

The Department of Health’s Public Health Directorate has donated an array of sports equipment to the Department of Education and Children’s Youth Service. The equipment has been used in the past for various Health Improvement programmes which have now come to their natural end.   The Director of Public Health, Dr Parameswaran Kishore, took the decision [...]

Social Services Mental Health promotion team are working to increase awareness that everybody needs to be concerned about good mental health and well being. They are launching Mental Health Awareness week to promote some key messages and “myth busters” about mental health and an understanding that:

Staff from the Department of Health’s Isle of Man Ambulance Service and Noble’s Hospital, in partnership with the Manx Stroke Foundation, have been on hand around the Isle of Man to raise awareness of the signs and symptoms of a stroke, as well as giving people the opportunity to have their blood pressure checked.  When [...]

The Department of Health has completed a review of fertility treatments available to Island residents.  The aim of the review, one of many which are regularly undertaken by the Department, was to ensure that the service in its present form is meeting the needs of those who require fertility treatments and that the service provides [...]

The Department of Health is pleased to announce that an additional 100 parking spaces will be available for the use of patients, staff and visitors to Noble’s Hospital, Braddan from August this year.   The new parking facilities are located at the Ballafletcher fields, on the right hand side of the main hospital driveway, opposite the [...]