In short, the law that was introduced in 2018 aims to make it easier for patients who need continued care and care in the home, after being discharged from a hospital. It is also important that people should not be stuck in hospitals when treatment is complete.

- What you are doing now is that you have changed the process so that the printing starts at the enrollment, so that you always have to stay one step ahead and together with patients decide how to continue the care, says Maj Rom, who works as project manager at Sweden's municipalities and county councils.

Fewer days of care

According to Maj Rome at SKL, the law has had a great effect, she says that the proportion of care days, where people who remain in hospital after they are ready for discharge, decreased by 47 percent in 2019, compared with 2017 in somatic care. They have then compared the first four months of the year.

- It is positive from many points of view if there are a few days you do not need to be in hospital, when the hospital care decided that you can go home and what the hospital should do is clarified.