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The authors of the put up Camilla Granerud Grindskar (former), Cecilie Riis Iden and Sigurd Elias Stette are all key members of the group behind the introduced lawsuit towards the state and the Norwegian Directorate of Public Well being.
view extraBy approving work expertise from Denmark, an necessary step is taken to ensure certified healthcare personnel.
Revealed: 07/10/2023 20:00
In healthcare we hear concerning the GP disaster and overworked docs. In ‘The Debate’ on NRK on September 28, docs complained about low staffing and excessive workload.
About half of all docs in Norway have skilled overseas. The import of docs will proceed to be essential for the Norwegian healthcare system sooner or later. Nevertheless, since 2019 it has turn into tougher for docs from Sweden and Denmark to settle in Norway. It occurred after the Nordic settlement for the approval of well being care employees ended and the Lis reform was launched.
The truth at present is that certified physicians are solely given non permanent permits to work normally practitioner positions. Docs with a number of years of expertise are overqualified in positions meant for model new docs.
A number of docs with expertise from Denmark are leaving Norway as a result of restrictions or not coming to the nation in any respect.
Recognition of the work expertise of docs from Denmark will assist safe staffing and competence within the Norwegian healthcare system.
Pressured into double obligation
The Norwegian well being authorities at the moment don’t acknowledge the work expertise that docs achieve throughout primary scientific coaching (KBU, previously rotation service) in Denmark.
Which means that many docs in Norway are pressured to work a ‘double shift’.
Can the Public Well being Directorate itself clarify the logic of this observe?Well being Minister Ingvild Kjerkol (Ap) advised Aftenposten that the EEA settlement obliges Norway to not approve work expertise from Denmark. This can be a misinterpretation of the settlement on the free motion of labour.
An equal high quality evaluation of Danish and Norwegian college schooling was carried out in 2022, with the programs being assessed as equally good. The federal government’s enchantment committee is in favor of approval from the Danish KBU.
However, the Public Well being Directorate argues that docs in Denmark will not be totally skilled till they’ve labored for a yr with Danish permission. On the identical time, permission is granted in Norway to docs who do not need this work expertise.
Can the Public Well being Directorate itself clarify the logic of this observe?
Present certified well being care personnel
In a debate put up, legislation professor Mads Andenæs in contrast the case to the Nav scandal. Regulation professor Tarjei Bekkedal tells NRK that the EEA settlement requires a concrete evaluation of {qualifications} by the KBU.
It’s time for the Well being Minister to take heed to unbiased legal professionals and acknowledge that well being authorities have been flawed.
There are actually 173 docs and medical college students who’re keen to go to courtroom to get authorized recognition of our work expertise gained in Denmark. However would not or not it’s extra acceptable if we might spend our time and power on what we do greatest, particularly serving to sufferers?
The Norwegian healthcare system is crying out for experience and palms. By approving work expertise from Denmark, an necessary step is taken to make sure certified healthcare personnel for the Norwegian healthcare system.
Docs are staff and, like different employees, the precise to free motion should be assured.
The scarcity of docs in Norway could be solved. Then the well being authorities must admit they have been flawed about us.
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