USU: Illegal queues in specialized medical care have not been dismantled
Sote|According to the law, non -urgent specialized medical care must be started within six months of the need for treatment.
Well -being And the HUS Group has not been able to dismantle the queues of non-urgent specialized medical care within the time prescribed by Valvira, says News Finland.
According to the law, non -urgent specialized medical care must be started within six months of the need for treatment. According to Uutsuomalainen, over 18,500 patients have queued for more urgent specialized medical care in welfare areas and in the HUS Group.
However, the situation has improved since August, when according to THL, 31,000 patients had been waiting for more than half a year to get treatment. At that time, their share of all specialist medical care was 18 %.
Social and health sector A year ago, Valvira, the Authorization and Supervisory Authority, gave the HUS Group and 14 well-being regulations that access to specialized medical care must be legal by the end of March. The only exception to this is the welfare area of South Karelia.
Some of the well -being areas estimate that the news Finns will have the long queues for the treatment guarantee for the rest of the year.
This is the case in Kanta-Häme, Päijät-Häme, Kymenlaakso, Southwest Finland and Southern Ostrobothnia and partly in Hus.
