{"id":338636,"date":"2025-08-12T14:17:21","date_gmt":"2025-08-12T14:17:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/338636\/"},"modified":"2025-08-12T14:17:21","modified_gmt":"2025-08-12T14:17:21","slug":"number-of-beds-on-ramsey-cottage-hospital-ward-cut-by-11","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/338636\/","title":{"rendered":"Number of beds on Ramsey Cottage Hospital ward cut by 11"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Reducing bed capacity in favour of community care and rehabilitation were among a raft of changes outlined in the health care provider&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/c0q1l87kg37o\" class=\"ssrcss-f6h2dj-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">plan for 2025-26<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A Manx Care spokeswoman said steps taken to provide rehabilitation in the community since 2023 had led to a reduction in admissions to hospital from care homes on the island.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">People with &#8220;frailty and complex needs&#8221; placed a large proportion of demand on hospitals, and the ageing population meant that would continue to increase, she said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Clinical evidence shows that being in hospital is not conducive to recovery and rehabilitation, with best progress made in the home with support from community practitioners.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Manx Care said there would be no job losses as a result of the changes but two  nurses would be relocated to the Frailty Unit at Noble&#8217;s Hospital and two social workers would be based on Martin Ward to speed up the discharging process.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Reducing bed capacity in favour of community care and rehabilitation were among a raft of changes outlined in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":338637,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4316],"tags":[105,4348,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-338636","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-healthcare","8":"tag-health","9":"tag-healthcare","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115016227046374035","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/338636","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=338636"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/338636\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/338637"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=338636"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=338636"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=338636"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}