Health service funding should be put to public referendum says MHK

Faragher 'very uncomfortable' about closed-door discussions on topic

Health service funding options should be put out to a public referendum, according to one MHK.

Douglas East member Joney Faragher resigned from her position in the Department of Health and Social Care yesterday, shortly after the now-former Health Minister Lawrie Hooper.

He'd accused the chief minister of trying to privatise the NHS - something Alfred Cannan has denied.

But Ms Faragher believes it's important to involve the public in these decisions: