A new report shows that Norway has a large lack of health care providers. At the same time, only one in ten who work with people with learning and disabilities has a nursing education.
This is stated in the report “No time to lose”, which is a survey of the competence situation in services for people with learning disabilities.
This causes the Fellesforbundet (FO) – the trade union organization for, among other things, such nurses – to react.
– “This is scary little. We have previously recommended that at least seven out of ten should have higher education, most of which should be a health care provider,” says Mimmi Kvisvik, the associate leader in FO.
In the early 1970s, a report from the Lossius Committee showed that the proportion of health care workers was 7 percent. In almost 50 years, the proportion has increased by just under 3 percent.
Kvisvik believes that the government must put in place a strategy for hiring more military nurses and calls for legalization of the nursing competence in the municipalities.
© NTB Scanpix / #Norway Today
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