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Free choice of treatment helps more patients. The consequence of the Labor Party’s electoral promise to interrupt the free choice of treatment is that the individual patient must pay again for choosing services other than public hospitals.
When they accuse me of ideological, they are right. For me, it is ideological that patients should have more power and influence over their own treatment.
In his DN December 12 column, Jonas Gahr Støre writes that waiting times in the specialized health service decreased when he was in government from 2010 to 2013. What Støre does not say is that the decrease from 2010 to 2013 was four days, while my government reduced wait times with nine days only from 2015 to 2016, and more than two weeks from 2013 to 2017.
Even this year, when activity in hospitals is hit hard by the pandemic, wait times will likely be shorter than what the red-green government delivered in its prime. Reducing waiting times to the pre-pandemic level is one of our most important health problems in the coming years.
Støre is fully aware that we need private and non-profit participants in such volunteer work.
Støre may not have been familiar with the mental health and substance abuse package process when she states that patients with substance abuse or mental disorders do not fit into a “package.” Is there someone who needs and deserves predictability about what will happen, when it will happen and who is responsible? There are people with mental illness and substance abuse problems.
Many patients receive good services, but there are often many people and agencies involved. Treatment and follow-up are not always well connected. Package processes make the patient’s course of treatment more predictable. When things hurt, you shouldn’t be your own coordinator. This is a time consuming job, but it is absolutely necessary.
The user and the relative organizations have been fundamental in the development of the package processes. From the beginning, it was clear to them that mental health and intoxication are more than cancer. Therefore, the package processes are different. There is little professional disagreement about the content of the package processes.
The basic pillar of the package processes is that the patient is an expert in his own life. User involvement and influence are constant throughout the entire process, from referral to treatment and discharge.
The patient must participate in all decisions. It is about putting the patient in front of the system.
Støre believes that we should talk about the really important tasks. I believe that strengthening the patient’s freedom of choice and participation in their own treatment is one of the most important tasks, if not the most important.(Terms)Copyright Dagens Næringsliv AS and / or our suppliers. We would like you to share our cases via a link, which leads directly to our pages. Copying or other use of all or part of the content can only be done with written permission or as permitted by law. For more terms, see here.
