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New mental health unit to localise care

Handful of cases move from UK back to Island

Three mental health patients receiving treatment off-Island will be able to move back to the Island to be accommodated at a new £7.2 million mental health facility.

Manannan Court - which recently opened in the grounds of Noble's Hospital - is a purpose-built, acute inpatient unit with 26 bed spaces.

However, the majority of the 14 Island patients being cared for by specialist providers in the UK will continue to be treated off-Island.

Health and Social Care Minister Kate Beecroft told Tynwald today (16 May) that the facility is not equipped to manage mental health patients requiring a high level of security:

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