Multiple simultaneous reforms within a system.
Rewrite healthcare legislation from scratch into a cohesive framework.
Reform funding to include both base funding and performance-based funding.
Integrate funding for emergency medical services (EMS) and emergency departments (ER), and align the principles of primary care and hospitals both in content and finances.
Increase investment in health maintenance, including more health education in kindergartens and schools to promote healthier living and increase the number of years lived in good health, thereby reducing future healthcare costs.
Implement a unified IT system across the entire healthcare sector.
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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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