Denmark will practice a document variety of specialist docs from subsequent yr to deal with the present important scarcity and future challenges. Docs’ unions are calling for a extra in-depth evaluation for every medical speciality.
In a brand new specialist coaching capability plan for 2026-2030, the Danish Well being Authority is growing its provision of medical coaching programmes for docs. The choice can also be in step with the continuing, main Danish healthcare reform.
“Within the coming years, we might be coaching a document variety of specialised docs, and this can contribute to raised physician protection throughout the nation and a greater steadiness between the variety of docs and sufferers’ therapy wants,” Sophie Løhde, Minister of the Inside and Well being, not too long ago said.
Rising calls for, rising shortages
General, there’s a scarcity of two,000 specialists in hospitals, basic practices and varied specialised medical practices in Denmark.
“This can be a large quantity when you think about that there are solely round 17,500 specialists working in Denmark as we speak,” Camilla Rathcke, President of the Danish Medical Affiliation, advised Euractiv.
Psychiatry and particularly youngster and adolescent psychiatry are hardest hit, she added.
As in lots of European nations, Denmark would require extra docs due to a rising and ageing inhabitants. Which means that an growing variety of sufferers with advanced well being points and therapy necessities are anticipated, together with these with power circumstances. Somatic problems, but additionally psychological well being points, are on the rise in Denmark.
The continuing healthcare reform can also be aiming to fulfill sufferers’ demand for specialists extra shortly and in places nearer to their houses. And also will maintain tempo with the truth that extra ailments might be treatable sooner or later.
1000’s wanted
All of this, in addition to the demand for extra equal therapy, now fuels the necessity for extra specialised docs.
Based on the Danish Well being Authority’s newest prognosis, in 25 years from now (2050), a complete of about 30,000 medical specialists might be wanted.
The brand new plan signifies that, as early as subsequent yr, as much as 1,270 college students will be capable to begin coaching to turn out to be medical specialists; the very best quantity ever for a single yr, in accordance with the Ministry of Inside and Well being.
The Danish Medical Affiliation is happy that an extra 100 medical specialist coaching programs might be allotted yearly, in comparison with the 2023 plan.
In-depth evaluation nonetheless wanted
Nevertheless, the docs name for a deeper evaluation of the state of affairs in every speciality, in accordance with Camilla Rathcke.
“It is no secret that we’ve been asking for an actual evaluation of the demand for a number of years and are nonetheless asking for one which compares the growing want for therapy and the variety of specialists in every of the specialities. We nonetheless want to try this, however this dimensioning plan is an effective step on the best way.”
The rise in coaching alternatives might be notably centered on basic observe to assist the long-term objective of coaching at the least 5,000 basic practitioners by 2035.
Extra coaching programs will even be primarily based exterior the main cities, for instance, at smaller emergency hospitals, to strengthen the medical assets within the countryside.
[Edited by Vasiliki Angouridi, Brian Maguire]
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