The queues to get health care have grown. There, the government set aside NOK 2 billion in a waiting time boost to reduce the health care queues. They also opened the way for the hospitals to be able to purchase more treatments from the private sector. But it is the hospitals themselves who decide how to spend the money. In Møre and Romsdal, the health authority has now terminated private agreements. They will use the money for their own operations, and acknowledge that the health care queues will increase. – Unfortunately, the queues will now increase for a period, says clinic manager for mental health, Ståle Hoff in Møre og Romsdal HF. He points out that they have a responsibility for the whole. The situation causes the Progress Party to stand firm. – Tired of sneak talk In news’s Political Quarter, the FRP and the Labor Party met for a debate on Thursday about the health queues. Despite the fact that the queues will grow, the government will not decide that the health institutions should use private health providers. – Deciding in advance that we know best which method works is a bad idea, says State Secretary Karl Kristian Bekeng (Ap) in the Ministry of Health and Care. He repeats his promise to the government: the health care queues will be reduced and he emphasizes that the government will closely monitor how the 2 billion pot of money is used in the future. MUNNHUGGERI: Bård Hoksrud (Frp) and Karl Christian Bekeng (Ap) disagree on how much coercion the government should use on healthcare providers to reduce healthcare queues. Hoksrud believes the government should force the health institutions to get help from private health companies. Photo: Hanna Johre – If we see that they are not meeting the targets, we will also place clear expectations that they must take extra measures to reduce the queues, says Bekeng. FRP’s health policy spokesperson Bård Hoksrud, on the other hand, believes that the government should be tougher in the pinch. – I think there must be an end to back-talk from the minister. Vestre says he will use all his best efforts to reduce the queues, says Hoksrud. Thinks thousands of treatments will be lost In Dagsrevyen on Wednesday, news could talk about Linda Tomasgard from Volda. She has just had cruciate ligament surgery at a private hospital in Ålesund. It is an intervention with half a year’s waiting time in the public sector. She believes that the use of private is positive in the face of the health care queues. PAID TO BE OPERATED QUICKLY: Linda Tomasgard has just had her knees operated on at Medi 3 instead of waiting on a six-month operation queue, according to her. Photo: Tore Ellingseter / news Managing Director Jan-Terje Teige at the private clinic Medi3 in Ålesund thinks the same. There they have 10,000 psychological treatments and 3,500 operations a year which are now disappearing. It is happening as a result of the agreement with them now being terminated. Teige therefore believes that the government should earmark funds for purchases from the private sector, so that the money that will go towards reducing the health queues must be spent on private companies such as his own clinic. – Then you get a solution that is established and that we know works quickly. Then you will get concrete effects on the times. Both this year and next year, he says. LOST ASSIGNMENT: CEO Jan-Terje Teige at the Medi3 private clinic in Ålesund. Photo: Mia Sofie Ytreberg / news Will prioritize reducing the queues for the sickest The public health authority Møre og Romsdal HF, for its part, believes that it is not as simple as Teige wants it to be, and that the whole needs to be explained. The healthcare system is short of people. Clinic manager for mental health, Ståle Hoff, believes that the agreements the health company is now terminating have primarily provided a good offer for patients who need simple treatment, at the expense of sicker patients. – This means that then we risk building up an offer for patients with milder ailments than those who are perhaps the sickest, because there are restrictions on access to labour, says Hoff. The mental health agreement was terminated on 1 July. An agreement on other treatments expires at New Year’s. At the same time, Helse Møre og Romsdal has started to recruit more employees. In February, the health authority advertised 25 new positions. Health Minister Jan Christian Vestre (Ap) tells news that the health queues will decrease, but that the private agreement in Møre and Romsdal has been terminated because it had a limited effect on reducing waiting times. Published 04/07/2024, at 13.26
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Gets money to reduce the queues – acknowledges that they will grow – news Møre og Romsdal – Local news, TV and radio
