Patients are still waiting longer in the Labor Party’s health queue
The waiting times continue to increase at Finnmark Hospital. In one year, patients wait two weeks longer for health care. If we are to reduce the waiting times in the health service, we must pursue a policy that works.
Too many people experience not getting the treatment they need. Instead, they go with great pain or ailments and get away from work for a long time. Getting sick is worst for the person who gets sick, but also leads to worries and burdens for everyone around. For children, parents, siblings and friends. It is in everyone’s interest that no one has to wait too long for treatment.
In an attempt to save the stumps of the Labor Party’s health policy before the election, Health Minister Jan Christian Vestre presented the waiting period. A promise that appears to be the skipper’s roof to correct the Støre government’s failed policies.
After almost a year, union representatives and trade unions sound an alarm. Even the government’s friends in the Trade Union call the waiting time an election campaign stunt that wears out employees. The Nursing Association reports illegal overtime use. There is concern that the high pressure on health professionals can weaken patient safety.
While waiting times continue to increase, we see a government that has systematically reduced cooperation with private individuals who have the capacity to help shorten the waiting time for patients. Now only small agreements are drawn. Some agreements are in just a few months and will be terminated for the summer or just after the election. The Støre government treats private and ideal hospitals as a rescue board when there is a crisis. The right will always see private and ideal as part of the solution to ensure patients quick health care and more freedom of choice.
The Støre government has managed the hospitals with an unpredictable hospital economy and changed the financing so that hospitals are paid less when treating more patients. Unfortunately, it is the recipe that patients have to wait longer to get their health care started today than when the government presented the promise.
When you or someone you love gets sick, the Right will ensure security to get the right treatment as quickly as possible. Then it is not useful with skipper roofs. If the waiting times are to be reduced, hospitals must be better controlled.
Right cut the waiting times by 14 days when we were in government. It was a result of clear political governance. If we are to be able to cut the health queues and give people faster treatment, Norway needs a new government and Høyre’s solutions.
If we win the election this fall, the Right will provide patients quick and good help by strengthening the hospital economy, giving hospitals better paid to treat more patients and buying more available capacity from private individuals.
The policy can provide shorter waiting times and smaller health queues. Then we need a government with action that prioritizes the most important first. No slogans. Only shorter wait.
