Home nursing
Optimize the home nursing service. It seems that the Health Insurance Fund has not audited this service. Based on personal experience, a family nurse in Tallinn spends time driving through the city during rush hour, only to spend less than 5 minutes with a patient to fill a gap in family doctor services. If the local government’s social department and the home nursing service could find common perspectives, they could genuinely help those in need. Instead of driving from door to door asking standard questions just to tick a box, they could provide meaningful assistance.
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7 thoughts about the healthcare sector’s main problems
- Health concerns are not solved by the healthcare sector alone in the big picture, but rather by the economic success of society and the understanding at all levels of society that investing in health is worthwhile.
- Considering the current state of healthcare in Estonia, the idea of a mega-hospital …
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Emergency services for a fee
My recommendation would be to make ambulance services paid. Since I work in the ambulance service in Tallinn, I see how many calls are not emergencies but rather a convenience service. It's easy to call 112, and three staff members come and give paracetamol – people have no sense of …
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Three years of mandatory work in Estonian healthcare
A significant part of the shortage of doctors is due to the fact that they go abroad to work after graduating. The shortage of nurses, on the other hand, is caused by the fact that they move to the private sector, for example, to aesthetic medicine. If a requirement were …
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