Healthcare on the Isle of Man

[2] Sir Jonathan Michael conducted a review of arrangements for health and social care services on the Isle of Man which was published in May 2019.

He recommended that they should be delivered "at arm's length" from the government and that arrangements for clinical support from the NHS in England should be improved.

[5] In March 2018, Sir Jonathan Michael was asked to conduct a review of the service because of concern that current funding levels are "unsustainable".

A digital facility for patients to make GP appointments and view their own health information online was launched in September 2017.

[7] The Manx Emergency Doctor Service is available when the practices are closed, from 6 pm to 8 am and at weekends and bank holidays.

[8] Dentistry services are available on a similar basis to those in the UK, with charging on a banded basis and exemptions for children, students, pensioners, pregnant women and people in receipt of Income Support, Income Based Job Seekers Allowance or Employed Persons Allowance, war disablement pensioners and blind people.

[citation needed] Annual eye tests are provided free to Isle of Man residents.

[9] In April 2018, there was an announcement that NHS dentists on the island were at full capacity and that it could take years for new patients to be registered.

The Isle of Man Ambulance Service is based at Cronk Coar on the Noble's Hospital site.

There were proposals, by the Corrin Trustees who had collected funds, to establish a hospital in Peel but they were halted by the outbreak of war.

[15] The free health service started on the island on 5 July 1948, just as in the United Kingdom, but without any legislation.

It was clear that the board would have to collect National Health Insurance contributions from that date to ensure reciprocity with the United Kingdom.

It was agreed that the term "people of the Isle of Man" could and should be interpreted as including anybody physically present on the island at the time so that visitors – mostly from the UK – would be covered.

Orange juice, cod liver oil, and vitamin tablets were distributed through the ten infant welfare clinics.

The Isle of Man looks to be the first jurisdiction in the British Islands to allow assisted dying to give terminally ill people choice and protection at the end of life, after passing the law in 2023.