Health Minister Ingvild Kjerkol (Ap) will spend NOK 690 million on strengthening the GP scheme in the state budget for 2023, which will be published on Thursday. 200 of these millions go to the A-lis scheme, also called the Tromsø model. VG mentioned the budget leak first. The scheme close to collapse The GP scheme has been widely criticized across the country. In Tromsø it was about to collapse. Then the municipality’s GPs came to the meeting. The Tromsø model is a model that was created to ensure that a GP scheme still exists in Tromsø. And several cities have looked to precisely the city in the north. The model assumes that GPs will have their basic allowance increased by 60 per cent, while their list will be reduced by 20 per cent going forward. In addition, new doctors receive an establishment grant from the municipality. Among other things, the operating grant has been increased for up to 1,000 patients, and doctors receive support when purchasing a GP practice. They are covered for ten sick days a year, and the specialist training in general medicine was made free of charge. Storting representative Cecilie Myrseth (Ap) says the GP crisis cannot be the municipalities’ responsibility alone, but must be solved from a national perspective. Photo: Hanne Wilhelms / news – Not the municipalities’ responsibility alone Storting representative Cecilie Myrseth (Ap) says this is an important move to reverse the downward spiral that has been going on for a long time. – This is most important for the patients who are without a GP who badly need it and not least the patients who are most vulnerable, who have been most exposed in the current era, says Myrseth. – Could this be the end of the GP crisis? – Our goal is for everyone in Norway to have a GP and I would like to praise what has been done in Tromsø, but it cannot be the municipalities’ responsibility alone to take action on the GP crisis. It must also be done nationally. Myrseth says that GPs are an aging professional group, and that more people need to join the scheme to be able to give patients the best help they need. – Then we need to get recruitment in, both for those who are going to be educated and are undergoing education, but also those who have just graduated and are faced with a choice about which career path they should take next. Larger proportion of Norwegians without a GP The GP crisis has been on the agenda this autumn after the Norwegian Directorate of Health revised up the number of Norwegians without a GP to 175,000. The Swedish Association of General Practitioners, for its part, claims the real figure is 235,000. The recruitment problem has in turn led to a bidding war between Norwegian district municipalities competing for the same GPs. In an internal memo circulating among Norwegian municipalities, it was stated that “medical expenses have exploded”, and that next summer the municipalities must prepare to tempt newly graduated Danish doctors with salaries of 400,000 Norwegian kroner – a month.
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690 million for the GP scheme – 200 million for the Tromsø model – news Troms and Finnmark
