The employee believes that the staff systematically cheats when they have to tick the box indicating why a patient has to wait for surgery.

Here you choose to put a tick in the box "medical reasons" or "patient-selected waiting", even though it is not correct.

This means that the patient is deprived of the care guarantee for 90 days.

In this way, the clinic believes that it avoids paying a fine to the region.

It also leads to patients who would actually have the right to be operated on elsewhere within three months suddenly losing their care guarantee and being forced to wait longer.

- It is a system that forces us to cheat with the numbers and that makes it look like we are operating on a larger number of patients on time.

It does not feel good at all that we are abusing the system in this way, says the person, who wishes to remain anonymous.

Healthcare money is used for cheating

According to the person, extra money that would have gone to cutting the care queues is used for administrative staff, whose job it is to call patients in order to get them to renounce the care guarantee.

Region Stockholm has, however, removed the penalty requirement for patients who did not receive care within the care guarantee during the pandemic.

The chief physician at Sös finds it incomprehensible that the clinic, despite this, urges patients to waive their care guarantee.

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Hear Södersjukhuset's chief physician Sven Klaesson react to the whistleblower's alarm.

Photo: Ann Sehlin/SVT

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