Monday, May 23, 2016

Difficult to provide medical continuity – Norrtelje Newspaper

Less than half of doctors feel they have good or very good conditions to offer patients medical continuity. Stock Photography.

 Less than half of doctors feel they have good or very good conditions to offer patients medical continuity. Stock Photography.
 

                     
                    

Claudio Bresciani / TT

            

 
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 Only 40 percent of Swedish doctors think they have good or very good conditions to offer their patients medical continuity. It shows a survey from the Swedish Medical Association, which now proposes measures to improve patient safety.
 

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Patient Responsible physicians (PAL) was introduced in 1991 in the health care law, but was removed in 2010 and replaced by a permanent health care contact. This has not improved doctors’ ability to provide medical continuity, writes Swedish Medical Association President Heidi Stone Myren on the Swedish newspaper Svenska Dagbladet debate page.

Many of the doctors in the survey also believe that there are major shortcomings in the position to coordinate medical efforts between health care units.

Stone Myren writes in the debate article that regulations and monitoring for solid health care contacts must be tightened to healthcare IT systems need to communicate better with each other and that procedures for PAL must be introduced, including the reintroduction of the concept of patient-physician in charge.

the survey was conducted by the medical Association in the spring of 2016 in the form of an online questionnaire which was answered in whole or in part by 527 physicians.

According to a previous survey think half of the population that it is very important that patients receive an unnamed doctor.

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