If you need investigation or treatment for a physical illness, you may have three types of waiting times. Investigation: the waiting time from when the treatment centre receives a referral until the patient can attend for investigation. This may include medical examination. Day treatment: the waiting time until the patient can undergo treatment.

2023年11月10日 · The Norwegian government is proposing a NOK 2.2 billion increase in funding for hospitals above and beyond wage and price inflation. The draft budget will facilitate shorter waiting times, strengthened mental health care and collaborative measures in the Northern Norway Regional Health Authority.

2023年3月14日 · As of January 2023, the waiting times have only gotten longer – and 2022 figures are the highest in Norway in the last seven years. Last year, people in Norway waited an average of 66 days to be seen by specialists in the health service, as P4 recently reported.

2024年10月16日 · In the state budget for 2025, the Norwegian government is proposing to increase operating allocations for hospitals by NOK 5.5 billion compared to the balanced budget for 2024. You would have to go back to 2008 to find the closest comparable increase in an ordinary hospital budget.

2023年11月23日 · Wait times for diagnostic imaging procedures varied with time, region, and modality in Norway from 2018 to 2021. Long wait times may entail many negative consequences for patients, professionals, and the healthcare system. Reducing long wait times is an obvious way to improve the quality, safety, and efficiency of care.

If the specialist health service cannot provide you with an offer of healthcare within the waiting time, they must notify Helfo. If you believe your guaranteed maximum waiting time has been exceeded but have yet to be notified, you can contact Helfo yourself by …

2024年1月10日 · Norway's extended free choice (EFC) reform extends the patient's choice of publicly funded hospitals for treatment to authorized private institutions (EFC providers). We study the effects of the reform on waiting times, number of visits, and patients' Charlson Comorbidity Index scores in public hospitals.

By comparing the Norwegian model for hospital waiting times to that of nine other OECD countries, the thesis aims to identify key areas of limitation within the current framework and to give suggestions for possible future development .

2013年1月25日 · We investigate whether socioeconomic status, measured by income and education, affects waiting time when controls for severity and hospital-specific conditions are included. We also examine which aspects of the hospital supply (attachment to local hospital, traveling time, or choice of hospital) matter most for unequal treatment of different ...

2022年3月18日 · When it comes to mental health care, the waiting time increased, but more people received help, according to figures that have been reported from the specialist health service to the Norwegian Directorate of Health. Just over 2 million patients were treated at somatic hospitals in 2021, an increase of around 5% from 2020.