50,000 vacant operating hours can cut queue – Future in North

NHO Service has undertaken an analysis of how availability in private hospitals can be used to reduce queues for patients waiting to get executed operations.

– To utilize spare capacity at private hospitals could save society lot of money each year. People, who could have had a job, is not it, and people are suffering needlessly, says Petter Furulund, Man. Dir. NHO Service

The organization has conducted interviews with the biggest private hospitals and collected data via websites, mail and telephones to the other to calculate availability.

The excess capacity in private hospitals equals 50,000 operating hours. years.

Large capacity

There are currently 10 private hospitals that have contracts for the delivery of various operations to Health Authorities.

These have a capacity of at least 134,000 hours on their operating theaters annually of which approximately 37 percent are unutilized.

This corresponds to approximately 50,000 vacant hours annually.

In addition, the available capacity in private hospitals that have approval / license but not public contracts which have not been taken into account in the note. Their capacity will be added.

Billions in savings

Of the approximately 240,000 who are sykehuskø, it is estimated that in excess of 30,000 is long-term sick of working age.

NHO Service have looked at what it would mean to reduce waiting time from an average of 10 weeks to 2 weeks as the private players is on.

Calculations indicate an economic savings of over 2 billion. kr .

These funds occurs through getting the percentage of the queue that receives sick pay (estimated to be approximately 13 percent of the pending) faster return to work.

Because the employer pays the first 16 days with sick pay is the public saving approximately 1.5 billion. If one had managed to reduce waiting times by 8 weeks.

The entire assay can read here .