Funding follows a full audit
The Independent Health and Social Care report in 2019 set out the algorithm by which Manx Care should be funded. This is the first financial year that full funding has actually been provided to Manx Care. If more is requested this year or next, I would want a full financial audit of where Manx Care is spending as a condition of it. I would not vote to withold money needed for safe staffing, but I would not be prepared to keep signing supplementary votes without knowing where the last one went.
Transparent waiting list times
Manx Care's own reports state that waiting list data will be updated monthly. In practice the data is buried deep in the Government website in a format that is hard for patients to find, and even harder to make sense of. I'll push for an online dashboard showing list lengths, waiting times, and the direction of travel so we can all see the overall trend over time. Using the January-July 2026 figures available (June is missing at the time of writing), I have built an example using AI of what that could look like. www.rachelglover.im/waiting-lists
Paying for care
The way we pay for care in later life is broken. Some people get full support while others get nothing, and costs are uncapped. Care home fees can reach £65,000 a year, forcing families to sell the family home, and around one in two people over 65 will need care. Tynwald debated reform in May 2026 and chose only to note the options rather than make a decision. That decision now falls to the new administration. There is no perfect answer here: even the "free personal care" option requires payment for accommodation, which is the bulk of the cost currently borne by families. In a perfect world I would not want anyone to have to sell their home to pay for care. But of the options available, I would vote for either Free Personal Care or the Mixed Model with capped care costs. Neither is free but whichever model Tynwald chooses has to be paid for through general taxation, National Insurance, or a dedicated contribution.