{"id":105574,"date":"2025-03-12T18:32:56","date_gmt":"2025-03-12T18:32:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/teknomers.com\/en\/an-election-campaign-stunt-news-norway-overview-of-news-from-different-parts-of-the-country\/"},"modified":"2025-03-12T18:32:57","modified_gmt":"2025-03-12T18:32:57","slug":"an-election-campaign-stunt-news-norway-overview-of-news-from-different-parts-of-the-country","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/teknomers.com\/en\/an-election-campaign-stunt-news-norway-overview-of-news-from-different-parts-of-the-country\/","title":{"rendered":"– an election campaign stunt – news Norway – overview of news from different parts of the country"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Shorter health queues have been Minister of Health Jan Christian Vestre’s prestige project. NOK 2 billion was put on the table last year to get the health queues down, with the unions on the team. In the toolbox, among other things, there were generous offers of overtime payment. In Health South-East, for example, the hospital doctors are offered NOK 2,500 hours to work extra. A specialist nurse gets NOK 930 an hour in overtime. Some hospitals have created so -called “leisure outpatient clinics” run by employees who work extra in their spare time. But while the hospitals are required to produce more and increase efficiency, money should be saved in several places. At that time: The Minister of Health launched the waiting time promise in May 2024 and promised fresh billions to get the queues down. Photo: Terje Pedersen \/ NTB must work overtime while man -years are cut at St. Olav Hospital in Trondheim, they must cut 230 man -years while at the same time as employees are encouraged to sell holidays and work extra. – It does not stand over time, the way of running hospitals that the waiting period proposes. There must be a more long -term perspective on things, says the trade union representative at St. Olavs Hospital, Jon Olav Berdal. Vestres waiting time seems like an election campaign stunt, says the trade union’s union representative at St. Olavs Hospital, Jon Olav Berdal. Photo: Bent Lindsetmo In Health Central Norway, the queues have been further from January last year to January this year. But at St. Olavs Hospital they have gone down. – An election campaign stunt Berdal believes the Minister of Health is most concerned with short -term results before the autumn elections. – It may seem like an election campaign stunt from Vestre. That’s what we react to, and we think it’s a little too very theme to run an election campaign stunt, he says, pointing out that the hospital has 11,000 employees. – We cannot downsize while we are going to do more here now, he says. Enterprise Vivi Bakkeheim (left) represents the superiors at St. Olavs. She thinks it is not possible to work so much extra. Photo: Bent Vidar Lindsetmo \/ news Also Vivi Bakkeheim, enterprise representative in the Secondary Association at St. Olavs, is critical: – A lot of extra work is planned. There is a great deal of pressure on employees to work extra. – It’s not something we can do for a long time. It is possible for shorter periods, but that is not what we need in the future to solve our problems in the health care system. Overtime: NOK 2,500 an hour Also at \u00d8stfold Hospital at Kalnes, extra work is done to get the queues down. Both doctors, nurses, health secretaries and others are offered generous overtime rates over double of normal hourly wages. So much extra earns the hospital employees Health South-East now offers generous overtime rates for employees who sell their leisure time to get the queues down: superiors kr. 2,500 per hourpsychologist specialists kr. 2500 per hourly in specialization kr. 2000 per hour special nurse kr. 930 per hourly nurse kr. 850 per hour psychologist kr. 2000 per time Audiographer kr. 850 per hour radiographer kr. 850 per hourly (college) kr. 850 per hourly edge kr. 650 per hour Source: Health South-East HF But the union’s chief union representative Jan Joachimiak fears the winnings are temporary. He is afraid the queues will go up again when the “lifting” is over. Does not go in the long run: The trade union’s union representative Jan Joachimjak at \u00d8stfold Hospital is afraid the queues will go up again when the “Waiting Time Lift” is over. Photo: Tore Linvollen \/ news – They sell their leisure time to the waiting lift. In the long run, it will not benefit anyone. We will see an increase in sick leave when this is completed. – And we also think the waiting times will continue to increase after that, because then there is poorer capacity. People have sold leisure time say and are tired, and they can’t work much more. – So then this is a little short -term? – Yes, for the politicians, that’s probably it. For us, we relate to the fact that it has been stepped down as an administrative regulation. We help to say that members can sell leisure time, but we must also see the consequence. – But the organizations and your trade union have been signing this agreement? – Yes, it was either to do so or not. Had we not done so, they would still have introduced it, as we understand. – There is also illegal overtime use among the nurses in \u00d8stfold. Enterprise representative for the Norwegian Nursing Association, \u00d8yvind Moksness, agrees that the waiting period is not sustainable. The overtime lift adds up to an illegal overtime use, says \u00d8yvind Moksness, who is the nurses’ enterprise representatives at \u00d8stfold Hospital. Photo: Julie Helene G\u00fcnther \/ news – I totally agree that it is not sustainable. We use society’s funds on something short -term. Outpatient clinics and leisure outpatient clinics are a boost we just manage for a short period. He emphasizes that \u00d8stfold Hospital has been good at using the extra grants to invest in premises and equipment that can have more lasting effect. Locally, the Nursing Association has not signed the agreement on the waiting time, because they believe the agreement proposes illegal use of overtime: – We must have enough people to complete the tasks, and we do not have that when we have to use overtime time and time again. Although people do this voluntarily, I cannot enter into an agreement that adorns the truth. Want dialogue news has for several days tried to get an interview with Health Minister Jan Christian Vestre about the criticism from the unions. He lets Secretary of State Karl Kristian Bekeng answer: Secretary of State Karl Kristian Bekeng (Ap) says the Minister of Health is concerned with dialogue with the unions. Photo: Frode Meskau \/ news – We must take the concerns of the professionals seriously, which is also why in the waiting period is a collaboration where the unions sit around the table. We always have a dialogue about what is the right way to reduce the waiting times – now it seems that the collaboration is cracking a bit, when they call this an election campaign stunt? – It’s not an election campaign stunt. It is about restoring confidence in getting help within a reasonable time in our health service. – But when the employees get tired, what happens then? – Here it is important to have good dialogue with the unions so that this is organized in a way that does not become burdensome. – Isn’t it a waste of money to pay generous overtime rates instead of increasing the basic staff that the unions think is missing? – It is not a waste of money to make sure that Norwegian patients get help within a reasonable time, and then it is so that in order to handle the puccle we now have with waiting times that need to be taken down, we must also look at long -term measures. Published 12.03.2025, at. 19.11 Updated 12.03.2025, at. 19.13
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