Health review team determined to see 'true picture'

The team due to carry out a top-to-bottom review of the Island's health service is confident it will uncover any areas of real concern.

The West Midlands Quality Review Service will send teams of experts on a series of day-long visits, focusing on different areas of care.

Their first visit is in two weeks' time, when emergency, critical care and theatres and anaesthetics at Noble's Hospital are put under the spotlight.

Yesterday, the review's director Jane Eminson briefed Tynwald members on how the work would be carried out and feedback given.

Ms Eminson says she's confident reviewers will see the true picture, despite staff making big efforts to show hospital services in their best light: