Right, the Progress Party and the Liberals still want decentralized hospital structure – Lofotposten

In a press release issued Thursday says that the Conservative Party, Progress Party and the Liberals have reached agreement on the key points of the National health and hospital plan.

– The majority thus wishes the hospital plan will concretize content requirements in hospitals. The plan therefore to support a continued decentralized hospital structure in Norway, with a “backbone” of acute care hospitals, according to the press release.

In the plan, it is proposed four different types of hospitals: the regional, large acute hospitals, acute care hospitals and hospital without emergency functions.

– we are very pleased that we now have a majority of central and key points in the national health and hospital plan, says Kristin Ørmen Johnsen (H), rapporteur for the National health and hospital plan.

With this plan it says in the press release that it secured a strong decentralized hospital structure and safe healthcare to the entire population. No hospital shall be in danger of being closed down as a result of the plan.

– We are concerned about the important role of smaller hospitals play to provide safety and good services to the population locally. We want the plan to help remove uncertainty for the future of smaller hospitals just by recognizing their value and clarifying the content requirements in these, says the head of the parliamentary healthcare committee, Kari Kjønaas Kjos (FRP).

– H, the Progress Party and V agree to reinforce the importance of the smaller hospitals function. At most smaller hospitals there will be various forms of acute surgical services in the future. This is reinforced in the agreement between the three cooperation parties, says Ketil Kjenseth (V).

In the agreement the parties agreed to clarify the important role of the smaller hospitals player, and the value of a strong decentralized health in Norway. The agreement protects and strengthens the plan’s main objective: Safe hospitals and better health care, no matter where you live, said the press release.

This is the most important deal points:

• Hospitals that currently have acute surgical services will continue to have this when the interests of patients’ needs makes it necessary, and quality and patient safety is safeguarded.
• The scenarios described in the plan will not be a guide to local and regional development processes to be implemented after the Parliament has adopted the plan
• Major acute hospitals must have geriatric expertise to meet these challenges .
• -Partiene endorses the proposed definition of the four different types of hospitals that are proposed in the plan: regional hospitals, large acute hospitals, acute care hospitals and hospitals with emergency functions.
• acute hospitals should have emergency care in internal medicine, anesthesia doctor in emergency service, elective surgery, emergency surgical assessment and stabilization, and handling emergencies. We believe that acute hospitals will have trauma emergency and general emergency surgical deal if settlement patterns, distance between hospitals, car boat and air ambulance services and weather conditions make it necessary.
• Any changed task sharing between hospitals must lead to a simultaneous review of capacity in the ambulance service.
• We support the principle of territorial management.