Patients are waiting too long for care – Helsingborgs Dagblad

For example, varying the proportion of patients who received medical visits in primary care within a week from 80 percent in Dalarna and 97 percent in Kalmar. When it comes to surgery, every fourth patient in Orebro wait more than 90 days, compared to only two percent in Gotland.

As a heart patient comes is not living in the wrong place in the country. While a female heart patient in Stockholm has a median wait of 27 days on a visit to a specialist, the corresponding figure in Norrbotten 78 days. Even in neurology different waiting times large. In Värmland, a female patient in neurology wait almost four times as long as the corresponding patient on the island.

But it is not primarily more resources are needed to tackle the long waiting times, according Care Analysis.

– Our analysis is that there are great opportunities to shorten waiting times through better working methods and more efficient use of available resources, says Fredrik Lennartsson.

The county councils is simultaneously bad on supporting patients have the right to change health care provider if the county can not offer treatment within tidgränserna.

– It leads to a risk of inequality. Most likely, it will be easier for the resourceful groups to use the health care guarantee and get faster care, while other groups are missing out on that opportunity, says Fredrik Lennartsson.

health care guarantee fills a important function for a broad group of patients, but need to be developed, believes Care Analysis.

– For patients with severe and complex disorders is 90 days while waiting for specialist or surgery far too long. It would be useful to develop more customized time limits depending on the severity.