The case summarized • The staffing problems in the trauma department in the emergency clinic at Ullevål have been going on for a long time, and as of today, four out of nine superiors are missing at the department. The staffing problems are locally, but confirm that the Ministry is informed of the situation. The summary is made by a Ki service from Openai. The content is quality assured by news’s journalists before publishing. “The situation is serious, and this has been going on for a long time without the Minister of Health intervening,” says Tone Wilhelmsen Trøen, chair of the Health and Care Committee at the Storting and the health policy spokesman for the Right. She will therefore summon the Minister of Health Jan Christian Vestre for the Storting’s question time. Tone Wilhelmsen Trøen (H) believes the problems in the trauma department have been going on for too long and requires the Minister of Health to clean up. Photo: Truls Alnes Antonsen / Truls Alnes Antonsen / news – It does not hold that he replies that he will stay oriented. We need a Minister of Health who clearly goes into this and takes responsibility. It is important that the national trauma service works, she says. The staffing problems in the trauma department in the emergency clinic at Ullevål, which is part of Oslo University Hospital (OUS), has been going on for a long time. As of today, four out of nine superiors are missing from the department, and in several cases news has mentioned how this leads to a large workload over time for several of the superiors. Several have argued that the department is collapsing. – Must prioritize the clinic manager for the emergency clinic, Øyvind Skraastad, says it is important that the injury reception works. Photo: Frode Fjerdingstad / news Øyvind Skraastad is the clinic manager for the emergency clinic, and he who orders the superiors on duty. He explains the decision that they have only five out of nine superiors to take off. – It’s about priorities. We must prioritize patient care and reception of patients, and then the guarding scheme must be intact, he says. Skraastad points out that it is often about life or death when patients are admitted to the trauma department. – That is why it is essential for us to say that the injury reception here goes completely without reduction in quality and capacity, he says, adding that the re -prioritization also leads to other tasks being put on hold. He says that they are now working for changes to solve the leadership and organizational challenges. – Within one to two months, we will have increased the number of trauma superintendents from five to seven. Thereby we will achieve a more robust trauma function compared to today’s five, he says. Skraastad believes that it ensures that several tasks that belong to the trauma function, in addition to the actual guard preparedness, can be solved to a greater extent than now. – With more at work, we can ensure both capacity and quality, he says. – Local responsibility Secretary of State Karl Kristian Bekeng (Ap) has been given assurances that the emergency preparedness will be taken care of at Ullevål. Photo: Frode Meskau / news Secretary of State Karl Kristian Bekeng (Ap) responds on behalf of the Minister of Health in this case, and says that it is of course important that there is a solution to the staffing problems. – But I must emphasize that the responsibility for solving this is local. – What do you think about superiors need to be ordered at work? – I do not know these specific details, but it shows that it is necessary to find a long -term solution in this case. The Secretary of State further states that the Ministry has been informed that the emergency preparedness and the traumatological offer are taken care of. – It is important to reassure people that we have good traumatological preparedness in Norway, he says. – Can go beyond patient safety Erik Høiskar, union representative for the superiors at OUS, is critical to the order of work ordered at work. Photo: Jenny Dahl Bakken The Trauma Department at Ullevål has a national responsibility for major incidents, and more than three million Norwegians Sogner to the department. Erik Høiskar, union representative for the superiors at OUS, responds strongly to the fact that superiors are ordered at work because of the staffing problems. – It is not a solution to how to take care of the trauma team and the superiors in that function, he says. Høiskar is critical of how the problems have been handled by the management at the hospital. – The trauma function is composed, where personnel from many departments and clinics must work together. It requires a commitment from the hospital to get this sewn together, so that you can maintain the emergency function Ullevål has. I miss that commitment, says Høiskar. – What significance does the situation have for patient safety? – The hospital receives a very large number of patients who need immediate help. We have 2000 trauma patients and many hundreds of serious injuries among these. Not having good control of the trauma business can have negative consequences for patient safety, says Høiskar. Published 14.03.2025, at. 16.20
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