Elderly people who are on benefits are being cared for in hospital or by family due to a lack of nursing home beds.
That’s according to the Department of Health and Social Care which says permission to buy a new privately built care home would help to alleviate the problem:
This week it will ask Tynwald to approve a spend of up to £8.1 million for the 68-bed facility on Sailsbury Street in Douglas.
Minister Howard Quayle says it would go some way to solving the current ‘crisis’ in care provision:
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