At Sollefteå Hospital, it is expected to be able to keep 16 care places open this summer.
With the possibility of two overcrowding and four observation sites.
There are too few places per inhabitant, according to the analysis.
- It is very little, says chief physician Sari Jonsson who led the analysis work at Sollefteå hospital.
Tougher priorities
When resources are scarce, people are forced to make tougher priorities in healthcare, she says.
Sari Jonsson is chief physician at the Västernorrland region
- This can lead to patients who should be admitted instead having to go home with the risks that this entails.
Longer wait in the emergency room
The assignment for the analysis teams at each hospital was to analyze the patient safety risks based on the staffing situation that is known.
In Sollefteå, there is a risk of increased waiting time at the emergency department.
The goal is a waiting time of less than four hours.
Even today, patients often have to wait for six to eight hours.
Something that is feared to be even longer with fewer care places Hear more about it in the clip.
Risk of deterioration on the ambulance side
There is also a risk that the ambulances will not be enough, due to staff shortages.
"The ambulance operation in Sollefteå has lost 11 out of 35 people in the workforce".
At present, staffing of 3,700 hours is needed.
At the same time, the need for transport can increase in the event of a shortage of care places.
This can lead to displacement effects.
- This can lead to patients with life-threatening conditions such as heart attack, stroke and cardiac arrest having to wait for the ambulances to be busy.