The biggest problem right now? Not enough doctors, nurses and SOSU assistants. What are the political parties planning to do about it?
Higher salaries – the majority of political parties want to increase healthcare pay.
- Socialdemokratiet wants to give a retention bonus (a one-time payment) to staff that chooses to stay in the public system. Also, the overtime/night/weekend pay should be increased.
- Venstre proposes the same as Socialdemokratiet, plus giving the freedom to hospitals to give differentiated pay based on skill level.
- Moderaterne proposes a temporary pay increase in 2023 of 2.500 DKK per month.
30 days treatment guarantee – the political parties are split on suspending this right.
- Socialdemokratiet and Venstre are against the idea of removing patient rights, even if just temporarily.
- Moderaterne would like to suspend this right for 2023 or at least until hospitals catch up with the number of planned surgeries.
- Enhedslisten would like to change the 30 days treatment guarantee from being universal to being differentiated, depending on the type of disease you have.
Less administrative work – medical staff spends too much time in front of a computer compared to spending time with patients.
- Socialdemokratiet wants to move the desk-oriented tasks from medical staff to other people hired exactly for this purpose (that don’t have medical training).
- Enhedslisten wants more medical secretaries and cleaning staff to be hired in public hospitals.
Recruit internationals – the political parties agree that the process of recruitment of medical staff from abroad should be put on turbo.
- Venstre wants to introduce a fast track for individual countries that have state-of-the-art medical education like the USA, Canada or Australia.
- Moderaterne want to create a special agency that will have the single purpose of finding qualified healthcare staff abroad.
- Socialdemokratiet wants medical staff that apply for documentation to go through the process much faster than today.
