📋 Tender Overview
"Skilled workers represent the cornerstone of our joint health and care services. We need a skilled worker boost to meet the challenge of a shortage of health personnel, says Minister of Health and Care Services Ingvild Kjerkol.
In the future, there will be fewer professionals per patient. The Health Personnel Commission is clear that there is a need for restructuring, investment in skilled workers and that tasks are safeguarded at the right level of competence.
"We must use the expertise and time of the professionals correctly and in a good way. For this Government, this means that competence must be built from the bottom up, starting with the skilled workers who work in the health and care sector. We will carry out a skilled worker lift, and this work is underway, says Minister of Health and Care Services Ingvild Kjerkol.
The minister points out that the regional health authorities must promote correct division of tasks and assess the need for competence. The health trusts were given this assignment in a revised assignment document.
In addition, the Government strengthened the Tørn project by NOK 30 million in the revised national budget. The project was expanded into a programme for the entire health and care service, which includes both municipalities and hospitals. Tørn is a trial with new forms of work and organisation that will contribute to better use of health personnel's competence and time, and thus provide more sustainable services.
"Tørn is important for increasing the number of full-time positions, employees with formal health expertise and supporting the work to ensure good task sharing. Safe and good working conditions are also recruiting, and underlines how important it is for this government to ensure that employees want to work in our joint health and care services, says Kjerkol.
The work to strengthen skilled workers will also be a topic in the National Health and Coordination Plan, which is scheduled to be presented to the Storting before Christmas.
