Waiting times for vårdleg increases – Dagens Industri

Waiting times for vårdleg increases – Dagens Industri

Waiting times for vårdleg increases

                  2015-02-08 05:15
             

More and more people with medical training who come to Sweden from countries outside the EU applying for a Swedish medical or nursing license.

The National Board shall now so many applications that waiting times for an initial examination risen sharply, reports the SR echo.

testing time has increased significantly, says Pernilla Ek, Head of Unit at the National Board.

According to Ek are no statistics on where they Applicants were trained to do, but it is clear that it often concerns the troubled parts of the world, such as Syria.

The National Board of Health is currently receiving in almost ten applications a day from healthcare professionals from outside the EU who wish to obtain an initial assessment of their foreign degree. In 2014, you had to enter nearly 2 000 applications, which is 500 more than the year before. Most of them are doctors, nurses, dentists, pharmacists and dispensers.