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Last week, there was a break in the mediation between KS and the Norwegian Medical Association.
Thus, it was clear that a large number of GPs across the country will go on strike as of Monday, October 26.
If the parties do not reach an agreement before then, doctors warn that the strike will intensify early next week.
The core of the conflict is the special agreement that regulates outpatient care, the working conditions of newly graduated doctors and community medicine.
Marit Hermansen, president of the Norwegian Medical Association, says that between four and five doctors have been removed in each municipality affected by the strike.
– We carry out a responsible strike in the large emergency rooms. These are active ER doctors who have full medical practice next door. But it is as an emergency room employee that they are put on strike, she tells NRK.
– We will do everything possible to carry out a new strike without this unnecessarily affecting patient service, says President Marit Hermansen of the Norwegian Medical Association.
Norway is in the midst of a pandemic that has had major consequences for the health service.
Hermansen says the first withdrawal largely spares the population and patients the consequences of the strike.
We are concerned about taking social responsibility, even during a strike, Hermansen says in a statement.
– I hope the strike will be short-lived.
Narvik is one of the places affected by the doctors’ strike. Sverre Håkon Evju, who is the chief doctor in Narvik, cannot answer how many doctors from the municipality will be removed as of Monday.
– It is the Norwegian Medical Association that decides who takes where. But I have understood it so that it is especially the emergency rooms that are affected.
Evju herself is going to work in the ER today. It emphasizes that the strike is not desirable.
– I hope that the strike is short-lived and that we reach an agreement.
Today, GPs are responsible for their own patients, emergency rooms, nursing homes, health centers and other tasks of the general practitioner in the municipality.
The Norwegian Medical Association believes that an unjustifiable workload is imposed on emergency physicians which weakens recruitment for both the GP scheme and the emergency department.
The Norwegian Medical Association refers to a study by the Norwegian Health Directorate that found that a quarter of doctors in small municipalities had more than 52.8 hours of emergency care per week.
Now they want an external framework on how much responsibility these GPs should have.
– The hiring crisis has caused the emergency services of many municipalities to be organized in a very fragile way and have few personnel. However, we will do everything we can to carry out a new strike without this unnecessarily affecting patient service, Hermansen says.
