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Date revealed for Ranson disclosure hearing

The next stage will take place in August

A date's been revealed for the next part of the Island's former medical director's tribunal proceedings.

Dr Rosalind Ranson was found to have been unfairly dismissed from the Department of Health and Social Care after speaking out about its early response to the Covid-19 pandemic.

A 200-page report looking at Dr Ranson's dismissal agreed with her claims that she'd received poor treatment, and that not transfering her to Manx Care on 1 April last year amounted to a fundamental breach of her employment.

The findings of the tribunal led to multiple high-profile resignations, including those of the then health minister David Ashford and chief executive of DHSC, Karen Malone.

The director of public health, Dr Henrietta Ewart, also left her position shortly after the findings of the tribunal were published. 

The former CEO, Kathryn Magson, had already left her position after her contract ended earlier this year.

Government has confirmed it will not appeal against the decision and the chief minister, Alfred Cannan, has promised a major examination of culture in the civil service will now take place.

A disclosure hearing is due to start on the 30th August and is expected to last for three days.

More than £43,000 has been spent defending DHSC in the tribunal to date.

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