In the coming Fall budget, the Alliance government is planning to invest a large amount on increasing the number of doctors and nurses. From 2017 the plan is to train 300 more doctors and 700 more nurses every year in Sweden.

The proposal for next year is to have 50 new openings for medical students to become doctors and 60 new openings for medical students to become nurses. The increase of openings for medical studies will done a step at a time.

This is good considering that the educational facilities are very under dimensioned today. Hopefully this will, in the long run, lead to removal of the problem with hired personnel. The cost for Gävlebord so far this year, Jan. – July, is 129 million SEK. This is an increase of 22 million SEK compared to last year when hired doctors made up the greatest part of the cost, 116 million SEK.

Today there is an ongoing budget work to improve the doctor situation in Gävleborg’s county council, both long term and short term.

I say, "The Alliance government’s investment in medical education, the long queues, investment in psychiatry, etcetera, are more than welcome".  

A light is visible in the darkness.

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  Don’t close down the ambulance services. This message from the children in Los last year at the meeting between politicians and the general public, was the introductory remark used by the County Council Director at this year’s opening of the FLISA conference in Gävle on Tuesday.

There were 700 participants, 60 exhibitors, 45 lecturers and a large number of ambulances at the Läkerol Arena in Gävle. This ambulance congress is an annual event which started in Jämtland in 1985. Politicians, ambulance directors
and ambulance medical staff from the whole country gathered to take
part of the latest news during the three day period of 6-8 of September.

”This is the main event of the year and everyone is here”, says Paul Kongstad the chiarman of FLISA, (the society for  those responsible for leadership within Swedish ambulance care) who is responsible for the congress.

On Thursday, the 8th, one of the lecturers is Mikael Andersson. He usually attracts many listeners with his unforgetable and inspiring lectures. He is one of the most
popular speakers in Sweden and Norway. Mikael was born without arms
or legs and has had to struggle to get that which others take for granted. Mikael’s lectures are about resources and the possibilities  in life.

”I creat my own reality and am responsible for what happens in my life. It is the power of the mind which is my greatest resource and which determines if I choose life or not”, says Mikael Andersson who has written the book – Without
arms, without legs, but not without hope.

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