The situation at Stockholm's emergency hospital is under pressure. Healthcare professionals raise alarms about patients being cared for in corridors due to a lack of care places, and at the same time news is received that Stockholm's three largest hospitals are providing 1,350 services.

On Saturday, Finance Region Councilor Irene Svenonius (M) was interviewed in Ekot's Saturday interview to talk about the crisis in the healthcare sector.

- We have a system that needs to be greatly improved, she says in the interview.

Right to own medical contact

The care queues are too long and, according to Svenonius, the solution is to reduce top management and bureaucracy. Nurses and doctors spend too much time on administration, and too little time on patients.

"I hate all kinds of queues," she tells Ekot.

She also says that the health centers should be the hub of health care and that all patients should be able to register with a named doctor. But how it is going to be practical to meet your own physician if necessary is up to the health centers.

- Those who run the health centers must organize it. They need to have enough staff to maintain that patient continuity. And we continue to transfer resources to primary care, says Irene Svenonius.

Requires national commission on care queues

In a press release, which came out later on Saturday, the Financial Region Council announced that it was demanding that the government appoint a national commission on care queues. She writes that the Commission should consist of experts from both private and public care, and not politicians.

"We live in one of the richest countries in the world and pay high taxes. This is a problem that must be solved," says Irene Svenonius in the press release.

SVT News Stockholm met with the Finance Region Council in the radio house after Ekot's Saturday interview.