The case Summary Health Sør-East has decided to reopen the competition for the allocation of drug treatment facilities. This comes after several complaints were received that some providers were allowed to offer multiple partial services, which is a breach of procurement regulations. The new offer would have led to several treatment centres, including Tyrili in Lillehammer and Folldal, having to close down. All players who currently have an agreement will be able to continue as normal for at least 6 months after the New Year. ————————————-The summary is made by an AI service from OpenAI. The content is quality assured by news’s journalists before publication. – For me, this place has simply meant life or death. Or rather, life. I wouldn’t be alive today if I hadn’t been here, says Nyhus to news. He struggled with addiction, but found a way back to life at the Treatment Center outside Oslo. Nyhus told his story when news recently visited the addiction institution at Fetsund outside Oslo. – Here I got the opportunity, the time, the support and the trust to be allowed to change my whole life. All the habits I had, he explains. A number of treatment institutions in the addiction field, among them the Treatment Centre, have been threatened with closure, because they have not been able to renew their tender. But today they got new hope: Helse Sør-Öst has decided to change the allocation to 13 private actors within interdisciplinary specialist drug treatment. This means that it is not certain that they will be closed after all. Photo: Kristian Skårdalsmo / news – This is important to provide predictability and peace of mind for patients, relatives and employees, says CEO of Helse Sør-East, Terje Rootwelt. Today’s news means that anyone who wants to run a treatment center and has made an offer will have a new opportunity. But those who have been rejected in the competition before will not get a second chance now. A very good signal, says Mikael Nyhus. – At least it gives a lot of hope for the patients who are already in treatment, and who need the stability. This decision will definitely be a lifesaver for many people, he says to news. – Cautious optimism At Behandlingtunet, which is run by the Salvation Army, both staff and patients are dismayed that the offer of 27 overnight places has not had its tender renewed. But after today’s news, there is cautious optimism. Managing director Marit Myklebust says this means a new opportunity and more time. But she warns at the same time: – If the politicians do not use this opportunity to increase capacity, there will be the same downsizing after the new round. Tyrili also lost contracts. General manager Jonas Finnby says the reopening can provide grounds for cautious optimism, but warns against cashing in on any victory for the time being. The Tyrilistiftelsen got an agreement for treatment places in two locations in Oslo, in addition to a new outpatient clinic, but lost the agreements in Arendal, Skien, Lillehammer and Folldal. REQUIREMENTS: KrF leader Dag-Inge Ulstein meets general manager Marit Myklebust at Behandlingtunet outside Oslo. Photo: Kristian Skårdalsmo / news – Ravages drug treatment Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Støre (Ap) had to answer a number of critical questions about the case in the Storting’s question time today. Both KrF leader Dag-Inge Ulstein and Høyre’s Sandra Bruflot accused the government of destroying drug treatment. – Is this a stop to the destruction we are seeing, or is it just to postpone it? said the KrF leader. When Ulstein visited the Treatment Center together with news, he called the case a scandal and asked Vestre to extend the agreements. IDYL: People with severe substance abuse come to the Treatment Center outside Fetsund, east of Oslo. Photo: Kristian Skårdalsmo / news Bruflot referred to warnings from patients, relatives and professionals that the drug field is being razed on Støre’s watch. – I expect the Prime Minister can say something about what professional reasons he has for reducing the drug field as massively as he is doing now, asked Bruflot. Støre denies that there is any progress in drug treatment. He pointed out that 100 inpatient treatment places were reduced in the years 2015 to 2021, when there was a bourgeois majority. – There have been major changes in drug treatment in the twelve years that have passed since the last acquisition, said the Prime Minister. Støre pointed out that the services have been expanded in the hospitals, and that there is a significant increase in patients in drug-assisted addiction treatment (LAR). – It makes substance abuse treatment more accessible, and over time has reduced the need to purchase overnight places. That is the professional assessment, said Støre. – People fear they may die Mikael Nyhus became a patient at the Treatment Center in 2015. There he became drug-free and got his life back on track, today he works at the institution himself. – I was allowed to cultivate what means the most to me. And that’s my music. I was allowed to be creative. I was allowed to misstep, fall, get back up. Knowing that there was an apparatus around me. Nyhus received remedial training and help to prepare for life outside. And it was crucial that he had his stay extended twice, to a total of 18 months. TOUR: Mikael Nyhus gives KrF leader Dag-Inge Ulstein a small tour of the Treatment Site, which is now threatened with closure. Photo: Kristian Skårdalsmo / news In an open letter to King Harald on Facebook, Nyhus writes bluntly: “Behandlingstunet saved my life” – What is special about a place like this, compared to receiving treatment in a hospital? – I cannot live or recover in a place where there are only white walls, if the goal is to be able to handle a world that does not only have white walls, he says. – It is important to feel that you are, in a sense, as close to “normal” as possible. It must be a humane environment, where it is possible to experience that you get to do completely ordinary things such as work, follow up on agreements, keep things tidy and everything else an everyday life consists of, drug-free. SORRY: – We see that the providers have not been given the same opportunities as a result, says director of Helse Sør-Est, Terje Rootwelt. He calls this regrettable. Photo: Nadir Mohammad Alam / news Violation of the regulations After the award earlier this autumn, Helse Sør-Øst received several complaints. Among other things, it has been pointed out that it is a breach of the procurement regulations that some providers have been allowed to make offers for several partial services, while at the same time they have taken reservations that they can only deliver on one of the partial services. – It is very regrettable, primarily for the patients, but also for the providers who participate in the competition, says Rootwelt in the health company. Health Minister Jan-Christian Vestre (Ap) says both patients, relatives and employees deserve predictability. – Helse Sør-Öst states that all players who currently have an agreement will be able to continue as normal for at least six months after the New Year. It is an important clarification, he says to news. Published 06.11.2024, at 09.03 Updated 06.11.2024, at 15.31
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