Summerhill View: The public sector care home being run by the private sector

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Manx Care is insisting that drafting in a private provider to run the publicly owned Summerhill View residential care home in Douglas, is a "really good value solution."

However, it's refused to disclose how much the contract awarded to LV Care Group is worth or how many other providers tendered for the opportunity.

It's estimated the state-of-the-art facility, which cost just under £15 million to build and will replace Reayrt ny Baie, will be up and running by November; although a confirmed date has not yet been set.

Manx Radio's Christian Jones sat down with the health body's Executive Director of Social Care, Mental Health and Safeguarding, Professor Tim O'Neill: