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On this page, we provide an overview of our funding activity, including the projects and initiatives we have supported, the impact of our contributions, and how funds are allocated to different areas of healthcare.
Learn about the wide range of projects that we have funded in recent years.
Realistic mannikins enabling Student Nurses training on-Island to gain experience with procedures in the classroom before using their newly acquired skill in the clinical setting.
Production of digitalised slides of tissue, sampled or resection on-Island, for transmission and rapid reporting by off-Island Specialists – speeding up difficult diagnosis.
Improving safety for Residents & Staff – enhancing care for the elderly.
Realistic mannikins to enable Paramedics & others to gain experience and confidence prior to encountering a critically ill child in an emergency setting.
Improved assessment & treatment of Asthma in the Community – reducing the need for hospital referral.
Funding for a purpose-built room providing a facility dedicated to providing dental care to those confined to wheelchairs without having to transfer out of their wheelchair.
Funding enabled Respite Beds to re-open, closed due to financial constraints during pandemic, prior to long-term funding being provided – allowing facility to be available for patients and Carers earlier.
Improving access & re-modelling of outdoor venture area for Children attending the Children’s Centre.
Transportation of materials & products created by participants in the ‘Men in Sheds’ project – enhancing opportunities for senior members of the Island population to socialise and maintain their physical and mental well-being.
Assist Intensivists in assessing and enhancing function of the heart & circulation in very sick patients.
Supporting family members of those with addictions, particularly children, with games, parties and days out – reducing the negative impact of their parent’s addiction on their lives.
A new faster, less-compact MRI scanner, with enhanced imagery, particularly for imaging small tumours, and reducing waiting times overall.
Improved ambience of surroundings in the Imaging Suite – making it look less of a clinical space.
Alleviating anxiety in the very young requiring an MRI scan – being able to scan ‘toy pets’ within this small model of a scanner.
Provision of new specialised beds for in-patient care of the terminally ill.
Prisoners experiencing chest pain can have an ECG assessment to rule of a heart attack without having to be escorted to Noble’s Hospital – ECG recording sent down the wire to the Cardiac Unit at Noble’s Hospital for interpretation.
Assisted availability of testing in the early stages of the Covid-19 pandemic.
Enabled in-patients with Covid being treated in isolation at Noble’s hospital to see and talk to relatives at home, during the shutdown associated with the early phases of the pandemic.
Allowed and expanded the assisted exercise service enabling disabled individuals to receive treatment in their homes to minimise muscle loss – enabling them to remain active longer.
Allowed in-mates with cardiac or urinary issues, often experienced by those undergoing drug withdrawal after addiction, to be assessed and managed at the Prison – reducing the need to be transported to the A&E Department.
Used for monitored elderly patients on Wards, particularly at night, alerting Nurses when they get out of bed unassisted – preventing falls.
Provision of medical equipment for managing lymphoedema (chronic limb swelling), caused by cancer or its associated treatment. Provision of special cot & bed for use by children with life-limiting disabling illnesses during periods of respite care.
Allows routine and urgent ultrasound assessment of the foetus throughout pregnancy, in the Clinic or in-patient facility within the Maternity Unit rather than have to go to the Radiology Department.
Alerts Nurses to activity of patients in isolation on the Medical Unit.
Modern easily portable screen for patient privacy, when feeling unwell in the waiting area of the Blood Clinic & OPD.
Exercise machine permitting assisted leg exercise in those with very limited lower limb mobility to reduce muscle loss in their legs – improving mobility for them in daily living.
On-the-spot assessment of kidney function in patients attending OPD.
Provision of seven new beds for the refurbished facility.
24hr urgent bed-side assessment of Manx Residents admitted as an emergency to Noble’s Hospital following a stroke, to determine whether clot busting treatment can be safely administered to reduce the impact of the stroke.
Provision of a number of electrically operated beds in the accommodation for use for disabled visitors, particularly former motorcyclists, to the Island.
Remote accurate administration of contrast to patients during CT scan, enabling Radiographer to administer the contrast at exactly the right time – improving imaging.
Image Intensifier for accurate placement of injections for chronic intractable pain management.
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Urgent assessment of severe life-threatening chest & abdominal injuries in the A&E Department – enhancing survival in the critically injured.
Modern portable screens for use in the new Imaging Suite for privacy in in-patients waiting on trolleys for CT or MRI scans.
Non-ferrous anaesthetic machine for safe use in MRI suite for those unable to tolerate remaining still for the procedure (up to 20 minutes), particularly for children.
Mammography machine producing enhanced images in the Breast Screening Unit – detecting smaller tumours.
A second Work Station for the Endoscopy Unit, enabling the use of a second room – reducing waiting lists.
Contribution to build & equipping a dedicated Breast Unit at Noble’s Hospital.
Assist the Hospital in driving forward improved & rapid virtual communication facilities with UK Hospitals where Manx residents are treated.
Equipment for use in monitoring brain function and cooling the head of Newborns who were deemed to possibly have a period of hypoxia around the time of delivery, to reduce the risk of long-term brain damage – around 3 Newborns annually (supervised from Oxford).
Additional equipment for Endoscopy Service – reducing waiting lists in meeting the increasing demand for the service.
Provision of suction equipment for use by patients with swallowing problems in the Community in keeping their airway clear – enhancing safety.
A special wheelchair to enable disabled Children to access all ‘wild outdoor’ areas at the Children’s Centre on Douglas Head.
Equipment allowing Anaesthetists to identify anatomical landmarks for accurate administration of regional anaesthetic during surgery – enhancing treatments.
Rapid bench assessment of kidney function in patients with renal disease.
Additional probe for Ultrasound Machine to enable Anaesthetist to accurate place local anaesthetic.
Hand-held non-invasive equipment, used by Nurses in the Hospital & Community, for monitoring the level of bilirubin in the skin of newborns with ‘physiological’ neonatal jaundice, to ensure that it is naturally resolving and needs no treatment – allowing mum and baby to go home earlier.
Treatment of newborns with neonatal jaundice using special lights, which transforms the bilirubin, and prevents any potential brain damage which the jaundice is spontaneously resolving – avoids exchange blood transfusion in the Newborn.
Special X-ray machine designed for use in the Operating Theatre for assessment in correctly reducing fractures.
Latest Monitors for continuous assessment of Newborns in incubators.
Standardised syringe pumps for continuous administration of pain-killers to terminally ill – providing continuous pain relief.
New system for screening of hearing in the Newborn, to allow early detection and intervention in those with impaired hearing.
A machine that enables capture and filtration of blood, in patients experiencing severe blood loss following injury or during surgery, for re-infusion back into the patient.
Cardiac Monitors allowing continuous heart monitoring of patients following a recent stroke on the Medical Unit – reducing mortality.
Hand-held Dental X-ray machine for use in Nursing Homes to assist with urgent dental treatment of residents unable to attend Dental Clinics.
The Trust awards Education Grants to healthcare workers, from a ring-fenced annual budget, which covers half of their costs.
Successful candidates sign an agreement that they will continue to work within the Island’s Health sector for at least 2 years after completing their course.
Notable successful applicants in past years include:
All those receiving grants have successfully completed their training and fulfilled their requirements to remain on-Island.
Purchase of a residential property for accommodation of up to 5 Medical Students seconded to Noble’s hospital from Medical Schools in Great Britain & further afield to undertake their studies.
£450,000
