Ranked as the most important topic for voters, there is pressure on the candidates to promise higher salaries for nurses and find solutions to recruit more nurses right now. The Danish Nurse Council has asked for a 5.000 DKK/month raise.
- The association of surgeons wrote a letter to the politicians asking them to intervene as operations are canceled and postponed indefinitely; waiting lists are getting longer and the current hospital staff is being pressured by the amount of work into quitting.
- They are asking for the removal of the treatment guarantee (which says that you are entitled to treatment for a maximum of 30 days regardless of what you suffer from).
- 2.442 nurses have resigned in the last year from the public healthcare system. That is 5,7% of all nurses.
