At our annual meeting, this year in Stockholm, Nordöl, representing senior hospital physicians from Sweden, Norway, Denmark and Finland, issues this updated joint statement on the planning, design and construction of hospitals in the Nordic countries. This statement replaces and expands our 2022 statement on the same subject.
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To ensure high-quality, sustainable healthcare in the Nordic region, we must place clinical expertise and professional integrity at the center of leadership. When physicians and other health professionals with direct patient care experience take leadership roles, trust, quality, and long-term outcomes are strengthened.
The core task of a modern healthcare service is to provide high quality specialized healthcare with doctors and other professionals working closely together. The healthcare is changing and facing demographic challenges. In this scenario, task-shifting between medical professions) is being planned or has been established in various locations.
Nordöl (Council of Nordic Consultants) proposes that all patients in need of specialised medical care for more than a day and where meaningful should be entitled to a designated physiscian to ensure medical continuity.
Detta uttalande riktar sig till aktörer i Norden som utvecklar system för patientjournaler och journal på nätet med syftet att införandet ska tillgodose både patientens och hälso- och sjukvårdens behov.
Specialist diploma and continuing profession al development from the Associations of Senior Hospital Physicians in Denmark, Norway and Sweden.
Thomas Zilling, Sjukhusläkarna, Anja Mitchell, Overlægeforeningen, Jon Helle, Norsk overlegeforening.